Pamir founded Brighter Tomorrow in 2014 with his brothers. Growing up as a refugee in Norway, he was able to take advantage of educational opportunities inaccessible to most Afghans. Around 3.7 million Afghan children do not attend school, with girls accounting for 60% of this number [1]. With a strong urge to improve the education available to Afghan children, Pamir began reaching out to NGOs but was repeatedly told that he was too young. In response, he co-founded Brighter Tomorrow when he was 19 years old.
Pamir attended the 2015 One Young World Summit in Bangkok and immediately felt deeply inspired by the range of speakers and the power of their messages. He was able to pitch his ideas on education to several of One Young World’s Partners, which proved to be helpful for Brighter Tomorrow’s sustainable finance model and partnership-building activities. Under Pamir’s leadership, the organisation has since developed an offline-based education platform that teaches students to read and write in both Pashto and Dari through unsupervised game learning. What distinguishes the Brighter Tomorrow model from alternatives is its scalability; its educational programme is both comprehensive and available on every platform. The tablets are powered entirely by solar panels, ensuring that electricity blackouts do not disrupt the educational progress of the children using them. Each tablet has 16 hours of battery life and is regularly rotated amongst the students to ensure equal opportunity.
Since its founding, 2,000 children have received traditional schooling through Brighter Tomorrow. A further 600 have received ed-tech schooling, though due to COVID-19 only 200 of these were able to complete the programme. More recently, Brighter Tomorrow has partnered with a Norwegian NGO to resume its work in Afghanistan, with 60 students receiving ed-tech schooling in Kabul and Badakhshan.
“The Summit was filled with inspiration, there were such astonishing speakers with such powerful messages. It felt surreal to even be in the same venue as those inspirational people. And that is needed because in this sector you need that support. It was a huge help, the Corporate Partners that One Young World has.”
