On page 25 of the "Plan Sectoriel de l'Education" it is written: "Despite its progress, Benin is still ranked 166th out of 177 countries worldwide". In Kpodaha, Dogbo commune, this poverty is much more present and impacts too many girls. They are often out of school, marginalized and plagued by backward traditions and bad health too. The few girls who survive forced marriage and child trafficking are the most affected. The goal of this project is to empower 350 countryside girls to go to school.
Women in general and girls in particular are marginalized because of customs and social situations. They are often forced into marriage, abandoned, or fall victim to trafficking. Poverty brings such unhappiness to these girls. They often fail to finish their schooling, and their misery continues. It is exactly the 350 schoolgirl's case in the village of Kpodaha. They try to acquire academic knowledge but these retrograde factors and misery block them. They are subjected to contagious diseases.
The school being a medium of emancipation, ONG Education et Developpement wishes to support schoolgirls in order to enable them to receive an education. This will guide them in life and will bring them out of misery and the grip of the backward habits and customs of the countryside. To that end, those schoolgirls will be given school fees, uniforms, school supplies, remedial and upgrading courses, lunches and Coronavirus face masks, soap and other tools for their hygienic conditions.
Educating a girl is educating a nation insofar as it is the woman who initiates children into life. Those 350 well-educated girls will become wives and mothers who are knowledgeable and able to lift their family out of poverty and diseases (e.g. ebola & covid-19). They will not allow their children to be scorned or deprived. In this way, we will build a new generation of women and men who will respect each other and believe in the full development of all people.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
