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Revitalizing Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Training Center
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| Community Name:
| Guinagourou
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| Benin
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| Volunteer(s) Name:
| S Goldman
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| Volunteer(s) Homestate:
| Washington
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| Funds community contributed:
| 3, 624
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| Year of project approval:
| 2003
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| Projects started in Benin 2003 (5).
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| Gouka Well Construction, Malanville Sports Center, Revitalizing Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Training Center, Textbooks for Students, Water and Hygiene Education
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| Other Projects in Benin (21).
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| Abomey Secondary School Renovation and Addition, Ballin' in Benin, Construction of Food Processing Center, Craft Workshop for Women's Local Language Literacy School, Girl's Leadership Camp, Girls Leadership Camp, Girls' Internships, Gouka Well Construction, Library Book Project, Library and Computer Center, Literacy Initiative, Malanville Sports Center, Program for the Eradication of Informality Among Artisans, Rent the Books, Revitalizing Agricultural - Animal Husbandry Training Center … further results
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 Other Projects by Volunteers from Washington (16).
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| Zane Baldwin, John Brown, Camp GLOW South Africa 2004, Camp Unity: Promoting Diversity and Tolerance in Ukraine, Captain Planet Ecological and Education Fair Panama, Chiundaponde Construction of Library and Resource Center, Mozambique volunteers, Volunteers who served in Mozambique, Garden Irrigation System, Athena Glubrecht-Sartin, Tom Graham, Grain Bank (Niger), Kirovograd Oblast Resource Center, Nancy Maynard, Ron Newark … further results
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Info about the Revitalizing Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Training Center
The Agricultural Training Center in Guinagourou was closed by the government two years after it was constructed, due to inadequate funding and mismanagement. This Center represents a huge opportunity for the agriculturally based Commune of Perere to teach the local population modern techniques for farming and animal husbandry. Following Benin's decentralization, the Mayor of Perere, with the help of the local NGO, GARPE, worked to reopen the Center to train rural youth and women's groups in sustainable agricultrue, animal husbandry, apiculture, fish farming, small food processing and agricultural and familial accounting. The Center will now be managed by GARPE with a five year goal of training a team from the community to manage the Center, without outside funding. Income from tuition and the sale of produce will fund operational and maintenance costs in the future. In order to get up and running, Peace Corps Partnership funding is requested to raise funds to re-equip the Center with vital farming equipment (such as bull, bull carts, rakes, hoes, pick ax, plow) as well as books and training materials necessary for the first year of operation and trainings.
