Our impact
Thirteen years, counted honestly
Every figure on this page has a source and a date. Where a number does not exist, we say so rather than estimate it, including when the honest answer is less flattering than a rounded one.
Thirteen years of Back to School
Twelve editions delivered, from 127 children in the first to 880 in the most recent. Every figure below carries a source and a date.
- Children supported in the latest edition12th edition, Back to School deck
- 880
- Editions deliveredBack to School deck, 2013 to 2025
- 12
- Year the foundation beganConfirmed by the founder
- 2010
- Children in the first cohort2012 registration, 20 girls, 12 boys
- 32
- Mothers economically empowered2012, alongside the first cohort
- 30
- Partner organisationsNamed in the deck, excluding TMTF itself
- 7
Twelve editions, edition by edition
Children supported in each edition of Back to School. Four editions carry no separate figure and are shown as gaps rather than guesses.
- 1st edition:
- 127 children
- 2nd edition:
- 278 children
- 3rd edition:
- 476 children
- 4th edition:
- No separate figure published
- 5th edition:
- No separate figure published
- 6th edition:
- No separate figure published
- 7th edition:
- No separate figure published
- 8th edition:
- 560 children
- 9th edition:
- 748 children
- 10th edition:
- 856 children
- 11th edition:
- 789 children
- 12th edition:
- 880 children
Success stories
The people behind the numbers
Eight hundred and eighty is a number. Each one of them is a person who went to school this year who otherwise would not have.
Stories are coming
We do not publish a child’s story until their parent or guardian has given written consent for it to appear on this website. Consent for a printed leaflet is not consent for the open web, and we would rather this space stayed empty than fill it before we have asked properly.
The first of them will be published after this year’s Back to School event.
On camera
See it for yourself
Coverage of the events, and footage from the days themselves. More is being filmed this year and will be added here. Nothing loads until you press play.
From the Back to School handover in Buea.
Registration, the handover, and the families who came.
Further footage from the event.
The full record
Thirteen years of Back to School
The charity’s own account of the programme, edition by edition.
Holding ourselves to this
Annual reports and financial statements belong on this site, and will be linked here once prepared for publication. A charity that asks for money owes its supporters the ability to check where it went.
If a figure here is ever wrong, we would rather be told and correct it than have it quietly stand.
Add to next year’s number
The thirteenth edition runs this year. How many children it reaches is decided by what comes in before it.