About Vision for Bright Future

Vision for Bright Future (VBF) was established in January 2019 by a few volunteers’ youth who aspired to contribute their part to enhance access to and quality of education and health for the hard-to-reach community. Before it received its current name VBF has been operating since 2012 as a simple volunteer association named Agarfa Improvement Association (AIA) and helps hard to reach students to fulfill their requirement to go to school and mobilize communities to plant trees and create awareness on deforestation and environmental protection.

With such inherent motivation and high level of commitment that enabled VBF, first registered by The Authority for Civil Society Organization (ACSO) as formal not for profit, nonpartisan local Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in 2019 to operate in Ethiopia with the license number of 4109 as a board lead organization.
Over the course of time VBF has primarily been involved in creating access to education and creating awareness on environmental protection. However, after its formal registration and in the COVID era the intervention includes health, emergency response and livelihood improvements. Currently, VBFs headquarter is located in Addis Ababa city and operates in Oromia and Amhara regional states including the capital city Addis Ababa.

Having its current thematic intervention (program) at community level, VBF works with schools, community members, health centers, community based social service providing institutions, and government sector offices and youth centers. To date, VBF has directly served more than thirty thousand beneficiaries with an annual budget utilization rate of 3,000,000 ETB. VBF currently has over 35 volunteers throughout the targeted regions. Since its formal registration VBF has been supporting 120 students annually through fulfilling their scholastic materials and uniform. That means 120 families of under deserved communities’ financial burden are resolved. Furthermore, VBF support over 16 woreda school libraries through donating over 4,500 reference books and create access for over 8,000 students to read and study without buying those books. We distribute sanitary pads to young and adolescent females in order to promote gender equality and prevent female students from missing school during their periods.

Apart from covering emergency medical expenses of hard-to-reach students and providing medical supplies at the time of COVID-19, in 2024 VBF built and handed over a maternity care center building with fully equipped materials in the Oromia Regional State Bale Zone Agarfa woreda, which served over 136,000 beneficiaries (mothers and children).

We are proud to say outload that VBF is working towards the achievement of SDG 3, 4, 5, and 13. VBF recognized that these goals are interconnected and that progress towards one goal often depends on progress towards others. In pursuit of that, we are also committed towards the achievement of other SDGs.

Vision, Mission and Core Value

Our Vision

Empowering communities by delivering quality education, accessible healthcare, sustainable environmental solutions, and compassionate humanitarian support.

Our Mission

Create lasting impact by providing quality education, promoting health and well-being, protecting the environment, and delivering humanitarian aid serving all people with dignity, regardless of background or circumstance.

Our Core Value:

• Volunteerism: We are created and standout through volunteerism and we believe volunteering is the very core of being a human.
• Community Commitment: We are deeply connected with young people, their parents, and our community. We commit to create ownership of what we do to the communities.
• Inclusiveness: We believe that the fabric of our community is stronger when all its members have the opportunity to express their diverse interests, concerns, and points of view.
• Mutual respect: We foster mutual respect for diversity and cultural differences.
• Passion: We are passion driven by a personal commitment to make a positive and impactful difference.
• Teamwork: We live by teamwork across disciplines and geographies, within the organization and with our partners.
• Truthfulness:We should be truthful in our dealings with donors, project beneficiaries, staff members, volunteers, partner organizations, government, and the public.