---
titre: "BRIGHT Education: Education Mentorship, from school fees to university"
chemin: "/programmes/education"
type: page
format: blocs
langue: en
groupe_traduction: 01a12936-3c84-7441-b98e-dd5408ed5abf
description: "BRIGHT Education in Yaoundé: school fees, university preparation, CV coaching and Duolingo English Test scholarships for young refugees. Ten out of ten Ordinary Level passes in 2022."
statut: publie
libelle_de_menu: "Education"
publie_le: 2026-10-11T04:26:24+00:00
version: 7
---
- type: departement
  departement: "BRIGHT Education"
  titre: "From primary school to university."
  pictogramme: education
  accroche: "Education is where BRIGHT began. We help young refugees and internally displaced young people go back to school, stay there, and reach university, with a refugee-led team mentoring them all the way."
  image: { source: "/medias/departements/education-universites.webp", alt: "BRIGHT with the representatives of Carnegie Mellon University Africa and USIU-Africa", largeur: 1400, hauteur: 933 }
  legende: "The visit of our university partners, 28 August 2024."

- type: programme
  ancre: what-we-offer
  departement: "BRIGHT Education"
  titre: "Education Mentorship"
  pictogramme: education
  accroche: "What we offer."
  offre:
    - "Funding to send children to primary school"
    - "University preparation: SAT, Common App, personal statement"
    - "Foundational skills: email etiquette, soft skills, study tips, computing"
    - "CV and cover letter coaching"
    - "Guidance on international university options"
    - "Duolingo English Test scholarships, so that students who studied mainly in French can prove their English at no cost"
  public: "Young refugees from across Africa now living in Cameroon, from early childhood to university and beyond."
  responsable: "Gisele Booth-Clibborn, Head of Education"

- type: jalons
  ancre: activities
  surtitre: "What we have done"
  titre: "Our activities."
  entrees:
    - date: "2020-12-13"
      titre: "Our first certificates"
      texte: "After four months of Peace Building in Your Community with Amala, our first students, internally displaced young people, receive their certificates in Yaoundé."
    - date: "2021-08"
      titre: "The Back to School campaign"
      texte: "Funds raised so that internally displaced young people can return to school, in evening classes at Saint-Benoît Catholic College."
    - date: "2021"
      titre: "Mathematics support"
      texte: "Local teachers give mathematics lessons to displaced young people, to prepare them for continued schooling."
    - date: "2022-08"
      titre: "Ten out of ten"
      texte: "All ten Back to School scholarship recipients who sat the Ordinary Level examination passed."
    - date: "2024-08-07"
      titre: "A partnership with the Duolingo English Test"
      texte: "Our students can sit the test at no cost: fifteen did so in 2024."
    - date: "2024-08-28"
      titre: "A visit from our university partners"
      texte: "Carnegie Mellon University Africa and USIU-Africa present their scholarships and discuss student mobility with our students."
    - date: "2026-01"
      titre: "An information session with AIMS"
      texte: "The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences presents its fully funded master's programmes."

- type: chiffres
  ancre: results
  surtitre: "Results"
  titre: "What it has made possible."
  entrees:
    - { valeur: "10/10", libelle: "scholarship recipients passed the Ordinary Level examination", source: "August 2022" }
    - { valeur: "15", libelle: "students sat the Duolingo English Test on scholarship", source: "2024" }
    - { valeur: "2,300", unite: "USD", libelle: "and 150,000 FCFA raised for school enrolment and continued education", source: "2021-2022" }

- type: galerie
  ancre: photos
  titre: "Photos"
  images:
    - image: { source: "/medias/departements/education-universites-groupe.webp", alt: "Students and university representatives at the BRIGHT centre in Efoulan", largeur: 1400, hauteur: 802 }
      legende: "With CMU-Africa and USIU-Africa, August 2024."
    - image: { source: "/medias/photos/seance-mentorat.webp", alt: "Adults seated at tables during a BRIGHT session, a facilitator standing by the window", largeur: 1600, hauteur: 1069 }
      legende: "A mentoring session."

- type: prose
  ancre: stories
  surtitre: "From our blog"
  titre: "Their stories."
  texte: "- [Fru Patience Ndeusse, from BRIGHT scholar to software engineer](/blog/fru-patience-software-engineering-graduate/)\n- [Yakubu Bitrus, Mastercard Foundation Scholar](/blog/yakubu-bitrus-mastercard-foundation-scholar/)\n- [Fabiola Fikoue heads to Sciences Po Paris](/blog/fabiola-sciences-po-paris/)\n- [Our partnership with the Duolingo English Test is renewed](/blog/duolingo-english-test-partnership-renewed/)\n- [An information session with AIMS](/blog/aims-information-session/)"

- type: appel
  surtitre: "Support Education"
  titre: "Send a child back to school."
  texte: "School fees, a university application, an English test: every gift opens a door."
  actions:
    - { libelle: "Donate", href: "/donate/" }
    - { libelle: "All departments", href: "/programmes/" }