---
titre: "BRIGHT Environment: Green Hands Enterprise, climate action that creates income"
chemin: "/programmes/environment"
type: page
format: blocs
langue: en
groupe_traduction: 01a12936-3c84-7495-b98e-dd540d1ed258
description: "BRIGHT Environment in Yaoundé: Green Hands Enterprise plants trees, organises youth-led clean-up days and turns plastic and fabric waste into products. Our first environmental awareness day was held with Greenpeace Africa."
statut: publie
libelle_de_menu: "Environment"
publie_le: 2026-10-11T04:26:24+00:00
version: 7
---
- type: departement
  departement: "BRIGHT Environment"
  titre: "Climate action that creates income."
  pictogramme: environnement
  accroche: "Protecting the environment is also a way to earn a living. Green Hands Enterprise restores our neighbourhoods and turns waste into products, and the sales fund the participants and BRIGHT's programmes."
  image: { source: "/medias/photos/yaounde-collines.webp", alt: "Yaoundé seen from the green hills above the city", largeur: 800, hauteur: 533 }
  legende: "Yaoundé, from the hills."

- type: programme
  ancre: what-we-offer
  departement: "BRIGHT Environment"
  titre: "Green Hands Enterprise"
  pictogramme: environnement
  accroche: "What we offer."
  offre:
    - "**Tree planting**: restoring shade and soil in our neighbourhoods"
    - "**Clean-up days**: youth-led action in Efoulan and across Yaoundé"
    - "**Recycling workshop**: plastic and fabric waste turned into products"
    - "Climate awareness sessions in schools and communities"
    - "Green skills that lead to paid work; product sales fund participants and BRIGHT programmes"
  responsable: "Rodrigue Bobiyomona Banina, Head of Environment"

- type: jalons
  ancre: activities
  surtitre: "What we have done"
  titre: "Our activities."
  entrees:
    - date: "2021-11"
      titre: "Our first environmental awareness day"
      texte: "With Greenpeace Africa, young people learn how to protect their environment and to recognise the behaviours that could harm it."

- type: galerie
  ancre: photos
  titre: "Photos"
  images:
    - image: { source: "/medias/departements/environnement-journee-2021.webp", alt: "A participant looking over Yaoundé from the hills during the environmental awareness day", largeur: 520, hauteur: 415 }
      legende: "The environmental awareness day, November 2021."

- type: appel
  surtitre: "Support Environment"
  titre: "Plant a tree with us."
  texte: "Seedlings, tools, a recycling workshop: every gift makes Yaoundé greener and creates work."
  actions:
    - { libelle: "Donate", href: "/donate/" }
    - { libelle: "All departments", href: "/programmes/" }