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.
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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 ›By Julie Wang | Board Chair
To provide the best possible entrepreneurial training to our cooking apprentices, Bio-Benin's facilitator, Guillaume Lonhoudjo, has added new courses that prepare students to manage their own... Read the full report ›