Country Snapshot: Benin and Equity and Quality in Primary
Education (EQUIPE) Program
USAID programs within
communities raise awareness of the importance of girls’
education, using a person-to-person approach. The EQUIPE
program includes support for local committee members
to work one-on-one with sixth-year students, helping
girls earn their primary school certificate and intervening
with family members to prevent daughters from being
overburdened with domestic chores.
In Ganhoumé,
central Benin, for example, Ayékoffè was
the first girl to earn her primary school certificate
in the school’s twenty year history.
