€30,000
Children in difficulties
2024-2025
Children in difficulties
Benin
Construction of a nursery school in the Cotonou region.
The association aims to support the Cité Saint-Damien, a cultural centre for children located around twenty kilometres from Cotonou. The centre includes a school, a tutoring centre, a large agro-ecological vegetable garden and a hostel welcoming families and groups for ‘green tourism’. The school has 150 children from nursery to Year 6 in an environment conducive to learning and experimentation. Particular emphasis is placed on training the teaching staff in active teaching methods. A quota of 25 children per class is guaranteed. Access to the pre-school system is limited in the country (source: UNICEF: 13%). It is against this backdrop that the Damien de Molokaï centre, with the help of the Air France Foundation, aims to provide children from the poorest families with access to quality education from the earliest age.