Le Grand Popo

This is one of th emost beautiful areas in Benin: Le Gran Popo. It is in the southern part of Benin, close to the border of Togo. Beaches are gorgeous but it is very dangeorus to swim because of the current. Many people drowned here … But it looks like paradise, doesn’t it?
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Review: WEbenin Benefiz Party

August 9, 2009 , our first fundraising party for Benin. Here are a few impressions, Tim my son is speaking …. (in German).
It was a lo of fun!
And thanks again to Humble Lion Band who really did a great job that night!

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Ganvie again!

On our way to Massi (the new ADRIA branch) we stopped by to show Anne and Nadja the landing place of Ganvie – the old crannog village, the most visited tourist place in Benin. We’ve been there in April. By coincidence we ran into Laurent, the guy who paddled us last time.

Laurent, a student of [...]

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Looking for a German Coach!!!

One of our projects in Benin is SEAM – Adrien’s soccer school for street kids. We gave them an outfit for an entire team (shoes, pants, shirts, socks and a couple of footballs) – provided by Peter Martin, a friend of ours in Heidelberg, and we are working on finding a team bus for them!
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Mission accomplished

The main reason I went to Benin this time was the fact, that 2 young German girls arrived in Cotonou. After having unexpected difficulties at the border Togo – Benin (I came in from Ghana), I just made it in time to pick them up at the airport. Thanks to our all time favorite Salifou [...]

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Check for ONG ADRIA

Today I made the bank transaction for ONG ADRIA:
600.000 CHF (=1100 Euro)
Thank you to all those who are supporting our activities in Benin!
With this money ADRIA will provide more people with micro loans.
Already ADRIA helped more than 1000 people – the interest per loan is 12% p.a.
More than 98% of the loans will be paid [...]

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ONG ADRIA will expand micro loans

Last April when we were for our first time in Benin, people in Massi asked us, if we could help them – besides supporting their primary school – with micro loans. Our plan was to connect them with ADRIA in Aledjo. ADRIA was founded in 1995 and they have been – without any help from [...]

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Mme. Abiba, Directrisse de L’Adria

Mme. La Directrisse is speaking about ADRIA, a non government organization which helps children, supports farmers and gives micro credits. ADRIA started 1995 – now 14 years later – they are ready to expand their activities to other rural and very poor areas in Benin, like Massi. They will open a branch there and give [...]

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On our way to Aledjo it was raining heavily …

Parts of Bohicon, 100 km north of Cotonou, were flooded after a short but heavy rain shower.

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Fundraising for our second trip – Thank you!!!

Tomorrow I am leaving for Africa again. The schedule is very tight: talk at the Benin parliament on networks, meeting with SEAM and what they can do with the Homeless World Cup, Benin Telecom infrastructure, building a library in Aledjo (meeting with the architect) and finally welcome Anne and Nadja, the two girls who will [...]

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