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titre: "BRIGHT Health: Good Health and Well-being, healing after displacement"
chemin: "/programmes/health"
type: page
format: blocs
langue: en
groupe_traduction: 01a12936-3c84-7451-b98e-dd5409d02ed0
description: "BRIGHT Health in Yaoundé: counselling from trained professionals, mental health support and campaigns, health education and workshops on confidence and self-reliance, for people affected by trauma and displacement."
statut: publie
libelle_de_menu: "Health"
publie_le: 2026-10-11T04:26:24+00:00
version: 7
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- type: departement
  departement: "BRIGHT Health"
  titre: "Healing after displacement."
  pictogramme: sante
  accroche: "Many of the people we serve have lived through violence, loss or displacement. Our aim is simple: help them heal and rebuild their lives, in a safe space, with people who understand."
  image: { source: "/medias/photos/empower-her-2024-salle.webp", alt: "Participants writing at their tables during a training, photographs on the walls of the room", largeur: 1600, hauteur: 1067 }
  legende: "At our centre in Efoulan, July 2024."

- type: programme
  ancre: what-we-offer
  departement: "BRIGHT Health"
  titre: "Good Health and Well-being"
  pictogramme: sante
  accroche: "What we offer."
  offre:
    - "Health Education & Community Awareness"
    - "Mental Health & Psychosocial Support"
    - "Sexual & Reproductive Health Education"
    - "Menstrual Health & Hygiene Education and Support"
    - "Maternal & Child Health Awareness"
    - "Healthcare Referral & Patient Support"
    - "First Aid & Emergency Preparedness Training"
    - "Community Health Volunteer Training"
    - "School & Youth Health Outreach"
    - "Health Advocacy & Inclusion"
  public: "Refugees, internally displaced people, orphans, older people and persons with special needs who have lived through violence, loss or displacement."
  responsable: "Jeanette Habyarimana, Head of Health"

- type: jalons
  ancre: activities
  surtitre: "What we have done"
  titre: "Our activities."
  entrees:
    - date: "2021-12"
      titre: "16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence"
      texte: "BRIGHT joins the campaign at the invitation of Plan International and UNHCR."
    - date: "2023-08"
      titre: "Our first mental health campaign"
      texte: "Thirty participants take part."
    - date: "2024-07-15"
      titre: "A second campaign, with Empower Her Through Innovation"
      texte: "Forty-five participants, during three days of training for refugee women and girls at our centre."

- type: chiffres
  ancre: results
  surtitre: "Results"
  titre: "What it has made possible."
  entrees:
    - { valeur: "30", libelle: "participants in our first mental health campaign", source: "August 2023" }
    - { valeur: "45", libelle: "participants in our second mental health campaign", source: "July 2024" }
    - { valeur: "15", libelle: "refugee women and girls certified, Empower Her Through Innovation", source: "July 2024" }

- type: galerie
  ancre: photos
  titre: "Photos"
  images:
    - image: { source: "/medias/photos/empower-her-2024.webp", alt: "Refugee women taking notes during the Empower Her Through Innovation training, a facilitator standing by the projector", largeur: 1600, hauteur: 1067 }
      legende: "Empower Her Through Innovation, July 2024."
    - image: { source: "/medias/photos/seance-femmes.webp", alt: "Women raising their hands during a BRIGHT session", largeur: 842, hauteur: 562 }
      legende: "A BRIGHT session."

- type: prose
  ancre: stories
  surtitre: "From our blog"
  titre: "Their stories."
  texte: "- [Empower Her Through Innovation: 15 refugee women and girls certified](/blog/empower-her-through-innovation/)"

- type: appel
  surtitre: "Support Health"
  titre: "Help someone heal."
  texte: "Counselling, a campaign, a workshop: every gift helps a person rebuild."
  actions:
    - { libelle: "Donate", href: "/donate/" }
    - { libelle: "All departments", href: "/programmes/" }