BIO-BENIN's mission is to empower students and women's groups to earn a living and to create employment in Benin, West Africa. We do this by providing training in culinary arts and organic farming to underprivileged students and women, whom we form into cooperatives.
Each of GlobalGiving’s nonprofit partners is required to send quarterly donor reports detailing the impact of their work. Here are some of their recent updates:
By Julie Wang | Board Chair
In the past three months, the 30 women we recruited to double-dig and create their own organic vegetable gardens have been working hard. Under the direction of Apollinaire our guardian and farm... Read the full report ›By Kao Wassiou | Project Director
Bio-Benin, founded in the belief that protecting the environment must be at the root of all our activities, is off to an excellent start working with Thrive for Good, a Canadian ONG, to teach 30 local... Read the full report ›By Guillaume Lonhoudjo | Director of Programming, Bio-Benin
This summer, Bio-Benin has taken on 11 more apprentices to train with our facilitator at Chez Guillaume. Their training enables them to become professional chefs and earn a living wage working at... Read the full report ›