Better Schools for Girls in Benin

Teachers face a daily challenge: to guarantee good learning conditions in a class group, often large, with students in the midst of learning their rights and abilities. Through our program, the students establish norms of coexistence based on the expectations and needs of all.

The students are then co-protagonists of the established rules, are informed and understand their usefulness, and feel accountable for ensuring they are respected.

Education for a culture of peace is at the heart of this program. It progressively imposes itself as essential to develop and strengthen the quality of education for all with zero discrimination. 

 The Foundation Vie Pour Tous, based in Parakou, Benin, evaluated the effects of the Better Schools for Girls project. It shows that the project has measurable outcomes, in particular:

• Stakeholders are more involved after the training to consider girls' needs in education better.
• Boys are more inclined to participate in household chores than girls.
• There is more co-education, both in the placement of students in the classroom and in the distribution of tasks.
• Teachers have more pleasure in teaching.
• Encouragement takes more importance.

We remain more than ever mobilized so that girls can have equal access to full-quality education. To this end, we would be most fortunate to count you as one of our loyal donors again this year.