--- titre: "BRIGHT Association: refugee-led pathways from trauma to self-reliance in Yaoundé" chemin: "/" type: page format: blocs langue: en groupe_traduction: 01a126c0-3b3e-7484-ad0c-8d9c22e2b1cb description: "BRIGHT Association is a refugee-led nonprofit in Yaoundé, Cameroon, registered since 2020. Education, health, sport, art and culture, technology and environment: six departments for displaced and vulnerable people." statut: publie rang_de_menu: 0 libelle_de_menu: "Home" publie_le: 2026-10-10T07:38:28+00:00 version: 9 --- - type: ouverture surtitre: "Refugee-led since 2020 · Yaoundé, Cameroon" titre: "Lighting the path to a brighter future for all." eclat: "a brighter future" actions: - { libelle: "Discover our work", href: "/programmes/" } - { libelle: "Support our work", href: "/donate/" } video: "/medias/videos/tennis-bright.mp4" image: { source: "/medias/videos/tennis-bright-affiche.webp", alt: "Children with their rackets at a BRIGHT tennis training session in Yaoundé", largeur: 478, hauteur: 850 } legende: "Our tennis programme with the Tennis Club of Yaoundé." - type: prose ancre: who-we-are surtitre: "Who we are" titre: "Built by people who lived it." texte: "BRIGHT is a refugee-led organisation established with a singular purpose: to support those in the most vulnerable conditions. Our team, many of whom have experienced displacement first-hand, works with refugees, internally displaced persons, migrants, asylum seekers, orphans, abandoned children, older people and persons with special needs." image: { source: "/medias/photos/atelier-femmes-bright.webp", alt: "Women talking and taking notes around a table during a BRIGHT workshop", largeur: 1600, hauteur: 1067 } legende: "A BRIGHT workshop in Yaoundé." - type: chemins ancre: departments surtitre: "Our six departments" titre: "One door, six paths." accroche: "A child can start with school fees, heal through counselling and leave with a trade." entrees: - departement: "BRIGHT Education" titre: "Education Mentorship" texte: "From school fees to university applications." pictogramme: education lien: { libelle: "Discover Education", href: "/programmes/education/" } - departement: "BRIGHT Health" titre: "Good Health and Well-being" texte: "Counselling that helps people heal from trauma." pictogramme: sante lien: { libelle: "Discover Health", href: "/programmes/health/" } - departement: "BRIGHT Sport" titre: "Tennis Programme" texte: "Teamwork and belonging on the court." pictogramme: sport lien: { libelle: "Discover Sport", href: "/programmes/sport/" } - departement: "BRIGHT Art and Culture" titre: "Lens on Life – BRIGHT Lab" texte: "Photography, film and writing for change." pictogramme: art lien: { libelle: "Discover Art and Culture", href: "/programmes/art-and-culture/" } - departement: "BRIGHT Technology and Innovation" titre: "BRIGHT Code Lab" texte: "Coding courses, bootcamps and hackathons." pictogramme: technologie lien: { libelle: "Discover Technology", href: "/programmes/technology/" } - departement: "BRIGHT Environment" titre: "Green Hands Enterprise" texte: "Climate action that creates income." pictogramme: environnement lien: { libelle: "Discover Environment", href: "/programmes/environment/" } - type: parcours ancre: journey surtitre: "Why it works" titre: "From healing to learning, earning and leading." accroche: "Psychosocial care, education and skills in one safe space give a full pathway from trauma to self-reliance." etapes: - titre: "Heal" texte: "Counselling from trained professionals, for people affected by violence, loss or displacement." - titre: "Learn" texte: "From primary school fees to university applications, with mentoring all the way." - titre: "Earn" texte: "Job, tech and creative skills, and green skills that lead to paid work." - titre: "Lead" texte: "Refugees lead BRIGHT and shape every programme." - type: chiffres ancre: in-numbers surtitre: "Since 2020" titre: "A registered, refugee-led organisation." entrees: - { valeur: "300", libelle: "people reached through education, vocational training and psychosocial support", source: "Since 2020" } - { valeur: "6", libelle: "departments: Education, Health, Sport, Art and Culture, Technology and Innovation, Environment" } - { valeur: "18", libelle: "members of a refugee-led executive bureau", source: "Elected in February 2026" } - { valeur: "85%", libelle: "of every donation goes straight to programmes", source: "10% to administration, 5% to fundraising" } - type: devise ancre: motto texte: "Nothing for us without us." eclat: "without us" signature: "The motto of BRIGHT" explication: "Refugees serve on the executive committee and shape every programme: the people affected by our work help shape it." - type: afrique ancre: where-we-are surtitre: "Where we are" titre: "In Yaoundé, Cameroon." accroche: "Our centre is in Efoulan, in the Yaoundé III district. Young refugees from across Africa, and people displaced within Cameroon, find a door open here.\n\n[How to reach us](/contact/#map)" pays: "Cameroon" ville: "Yaoundé" - type: partenaires ancre: partners surtitre: "Our partners" titre: "Every result was achieved with partners." accroche: "We thank each of them." entrees: - nom: "Lens on Life Project" apport: "Photography training, cameras and computers, the Lab, scholarships" logo: { source: "/medias/partenaires/lens-on-life.webp", alt: "Lens on Life Project logo", largeur: 208, hauteur: 200 } - nom: "Mentors Without Borders" apport: "Computer programming and product management training, 2021 and 2022" lien: "https://www.mentorswithoutborders.net/index.php" nom_visible: oui logo: { source: "/medias/partenaires/mentors-without-borders-180.webp", alt: "Mentors Without Borders logo", largeur: 180, hauteur: 180 } - nom: "Tennis Club of Yaoundé" apport: "Year-round tennis training since 2020" logo: { source: "/medias/partenaires/tennis-club-yaounde.webp", alt: "Tennis Club of Yaoundé logo", largeur: 212, hauteur: 200 } - nom: "Tennis Diaspora Cameroun" logo: { source: "/medias/partenaires/tennis-diaspora-cameroun.webp", alt: "Tennis Diaspora Cameroun logo", largeur: 200, hauteur: 200 } - nom: "Duolingo English Test" apport: "English test scholarships" logo: { source: "/medias/partenaires/duolingo.webp", alt: "Duolingo logo", largeur: 196, hauteur: 200 } - nom: "Essungue Ejuma Foundation" apport: "School scholarships for internally displaced children" logo: { source: "/medias/partenaires/essungue-ejuma-foundation.webp", alt: "Essungue Ejuma Foundation logo", largeur: 230, hauteur: 200 } - nom: "African Refugee Women-Led Network" apport: "BRIGHT is a member; its founder is Head of Communication" logo: { source: "/medias/partenaires/arwnet.webp", alt: "African Refugee Women-Led Network logo", largeur: 187, hauteur: 200 } - nom: "Migration Summit 2024" apport: "The framework for Empower Her Through Innovation" logo: { source: "/medias/partenaires/migration-summit-2024.webp", alt: "Migration Summit 2024 logo", largeur: 391, hauteur: 200 } - nom: "UWC Cameroon" apport: "A partner of our first two years" logo: { source: "/medias/partenaires/uwc-cameroon.webp", alt: "UWC Cameroon logo", largeur: 842, hauteur: 120 } - nom: "Yaoundé III Council" apport: "The exhibition of our first photography workshop, 2021" logo: { source: "/medias/partenaires/commune-yaounde-3.webp", alt: "Yaoundé III Council logo", largeur: 198, hauteur: 200 } - nom: "Tennis Sans Frontières" apport: "Rackets, balls and T-shirts, August 2025" logo: { source: "/medias/partenaires/tennis-sans-frontieres.webp", alt: "Tennis Sans Frontières logo", largeur: 213, hauteur: 200 } - nom: "Oxfam International" apport: "Sponsorship of refugee women leaders at regional and global forums" logo: { source: "/medias/partenaires/oxfam.webp", alt: "Oxfam logo", largeur: 179, hauteur: 200 } - nom: "African Institute for Mathematical Sciences" apport: "Information session on fully funded master's programmes, January 2026" logo: { source: "/medias/partenaires/aims.webp", alt: "African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) logo", largeur: 177, hauteur: 200 } - nom: "Carnegie Mellon University Africa" apport: "Scholarship information and student mobility discussions, August 2024" logo: { source: "/medias/partenaires/carnegie-mellon-university-africa.webp", alt: "Carnegie Mellon University Africa logo", largeur: 420, hauteur: 68 } - nom: "USIU-Africa" apport: "Scholarship information and student mobility discussions, August 2024" logo: { source: "/medias/partenaires/usiu-africa.webp", alt: "United States International University-Africa logo", largeur: 263, hauteur: 200 } - nom: "Amala Education" apport: "Peace Building in My Community, 2020 and 2021" logo: { source: "/medias/partenaires/amala-education.webp", alt: "Amala Education logo", largeur: 420, hauteur: 162 } - nom: "Greenpeace Africa" apport: "Environmental awareness day, November 2021" logo: { source: "/medias/partenaires/greenpeace-africa.webp", alt: "Greenpeace Africa logo", largeur: 420, hauteur: 67 } - nom: "Amahoro Coalition" apport: "Liliane Uwase is an Amahoro Coalition Fellow" logo: { source: "/medias/partenaires/amahoro-coalition.webp", alt: "Amahoro Coalition logo", largeur: 420, hauteur: 140 } - nom: "Code Club" logo: { source: "/medias/partenaires/code-club.webp", alt: "Code Club logo", largeur: 283, hauteur: 200 } - type: partenaires ancre: scholars surtitre: "Our scholars" titre: "Where our scholars study." accroche: "The universities and schools where BRIGHT scholars study." entrees: - nom: "University of Global Health Equity" logo: { source: "/medias/ecoles/university-of-global-health-equity.webp", alt: "University of Global Health Equity logo", largeur: 420, hauteur: 114 } - nom: "Università degli Studi di Cagliari" logo: { source: "/medias/ecoles/universita-di-cagliari.webp", alt: "Università degli Studi di Cagliari logo", largeur: 420, hauteur: 72 } - nom: "Università degli Studi G. d'Annunzio" logo: { source: "/medias/ecoles/universita-g-d-annunzio.webp", alt: "Università degli Studi G. d'Annunzio logo", largeur: 201, hauteur: 200 } - nom: "Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology" logo: { source: "/medias/ecoles/knust.webp", alt: "Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology logo", largeur: 420, hauteur: 94 } - nom: "IFCPA (CRTV)" logo: { source: "/medias/ecoles/ifcpa.webp", alt: "IFCPA (CRTV) logo", largeur: 420, hauteur: 101 } - type: actualites ancre: stories surtitre: "Blog" titre: "Our latest stories." rubrique: "/blog" nombre: "3" toutes: { libelle: "All stories", href: "/blog/" } - type: appel ancre: get-involved surtitre: "Join us" titre: "Join us in lighting the path to a brighter future." texte: "**Donate**: 85% of every gift goes straight to programmes. **Volunteer**: join our team and make a direct impact. **Partner**: bring your school, club or company into our programmes. **Spread the word**: follow us and share our mission." actions: - { libelle: "Donate", href: "/donate/" } - { libelle: "Get in touch", href: "/contact/" } - { libelle: "Follow us on Facebook", href: "https://www.facebook.com/AssociationBRIGHT" } - type: formulaire ancre: mailing-list-signup surtitre: "Stay in touch" titre: "Join our mailing list." accroche: "Leave your name and e-mail address to receive news of our programmes, our results and our events." formulaire: "bright" mode: inscription repli: { libelle: "liliane.uwase@bright-association.org", href: "mailto:liliane.uwase@bright-association.org" }