Project Report
| Jan 4, 2017
FOR A BETTER PERSPECTIVE
By Serena Natali | Project assistant
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The monitoring mission guided by our project managers took place last October. During the trip, they visited all the Aleimar projects and they focalized on the progresses made by each initiative. André N’tcha, our local project coordinator,has just left the hospital and he is now ready to restart his important commitment with the women involved in the activities. The donors’ valuable support, gave us the possibility to buy a double screw press for the manioca(you can see it in the picture below).
Despite the fact that October is usually a difficult month for the cultivation, we can affirm that the harvest has been good, so much that the women taking part in the microcredit activities are now investing their credit for products selling on the local market basis.
The vast majority of cereals production made possible to stock a big part them in the warehouse of Toucountouna in order to resell it during shortage period and raising the price. They called it “Cereals Bank”.
We are carrying on our schools awareness activities, this scholastic year will be focalized on two important issues: the environmental protection and the recycling.
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Oct 6, 2016
MONITORING MISSION IN ATACORA
By Francesca Moratti | Project Leader
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Realization of gardens
Antonio Carettoni and Antonella Graziati, our project managers, are presently in Benin for a monitoring mission. They are travelling throughout the Country in order to visit all Aleimar projects. As far as “Let’s seed the future” is concerned, we must tell that our local coordinator in hospital so he won’t be able to follow the activities for a month. Antonio and Antonella met his colleague who is now in charge of the project. There are 15 groups of women who started their income generating activities thanks to microfinance. October is the harvest season: by the end of the month we’ll be able to see the products of the land and the income for the families.
In Italy a photo exhibition of the school boards on food security and food sovereignty, made by the students involved, was inaugurated. We are organizing meetings of restitution of the African workshop in Italian schools.
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Workshop for theachers in Benin
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Photo exhibition
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Jul 5, 2016
ITALIAN TEACHERS IN BENIN
By Francesca Moratti | Project Leader
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italian teachers in Benin
From June to September is the rainy season in Benin, then the maximum working period in the countryside. The women participating in the project are very busy and that's why this time the training meetings were discontinued. In August / September we will take stock of the harvest and the subsequent sale of the products.
From 24/6 to 4/7 it was held in Natitingou a workshop for Italians and Beninese teachers who have joined the project. Purpose of the workshop: a reciprocal knowledge and an exchange of experiences about the project implemented in their schools on the theme of adding value to local products, a more healthy and balanced nutrition and environmental protection. At the opening day was attended by two local authorities: the mayor of Natitingou and a spokesman priest of the diocese of Natitingou. In addition to three days of work in the classroom, they were made of visits to the Beninese schools involved to meet the pupils and to better understand the local reality.
At return of Italian teachers will be organized meetings of restitution in Italian schools.
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school in Benin
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local women
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local women
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