Three Sisters Education Fund provides individualized tutoring to 38 at-risk students in southern Benin who face barriers like poverty, gender discrimination, and lack of educational support. With 80%+ pass rates (nearly double Benin's 38% secondary completion rate) and 90% retention, we prove that targeted support transforms lives. Your donation helps students stay in school, excel academically, and break cycles of poverty.
In Benin, only 66% of students complete primary school, and just 38% complete lower secondary education. For girls, children living as vidomegon (extended family members), students with disabilities, and those from low-income families, these rates are even lower. Overcrowded classrooms (39:1 ratio), under-resourced schools, lack of individual attention, and cultural pressure (especially on girls) to leave school early mean vulnerable students fall further behind until they drop out.
We provide twice-weekly, two-hour tutoring to 38 at-risk students in southern Benin. Our 17 trained tutors work in homes or community spaces, delivering personalized instruction in STEM, French, English, and humanities. We also train 20 teachers in inquiry-based methods and engage 50+ parents through locally-relevant materials. Results: 80%+ pass rates (nearly double national averages), 90% retention, and alumni now at university. We prove that targeted support transforms lives.
Over 11 years, we've served 75 students with 80%+ annual pass rates and 90% retention. Alumni are now attending university and pursuing vocational programs in tourism, civil engineering, fashion design, and healthcare. By keeping girls in school longer than national averages and breaking generational cycles of poverty, we create role models who inspire others. Our approach builds sustainable change: students become alumni, alumni families become staff, and community leadership grows from within.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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