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Addifon Arsène
CBO-EPT
3, rue delcassé,
Porto-Novo
08 BP 85 Tri Postal Cotonou
Benin
Tel: +229 21 38 60
Fax: +229 20 21 27 47
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(CBO-EPT) Coalition Beninoise des Organisations pour l’education pour Tous
What happened in Action Week 2009?
The national coalition organised several activities as part of the celebration in 2009. On Friday, 17 April, the members of the coalition made media appearances inviting all stakeholders to participate actively in the campaign.

Newly literate individuals wrote stories for a book that were compiled in a book and used for the national event on Thursday 23rd April at the Friendship KOUHOUNOU in Cotonou. Over 800 people attended the event, which was organized in collaboration with all of the Ministers in charge of education and literacy.

The week ended with workshop on the introduction of local languages in education and was attended by 400 teachers.

What happened in Action Week 2008?
The official demonstrations were deferred in Benin because of the communal and local elections which coincided with the event. But the coalition did organise a large caravan filled with children in different parts of the country.

The uniform clad children travelled for approximately 2kms carrying signs bearing various messages relating to the topic of the year. With the tune of the brass bands in the background, children sang heartfelt messages and read slogans inviting each person to play their part in order to put an end to exclusion.

What happened in Action Week 2007?

The week secured much media coverage when the President Dr. Yayi Boni appeared in schools, taking the advantage to meet teachers from different departments.Global Action Week was launched by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education in Karimama in the North of Benin, where the enrolment rate is the lowest in the country – with only 36% of children, and 27% of girls going to school. The French Vallet Foundation provided learning materials to the children while 830 scholarships were supplied to deserving poor children. During the week, a unit of three classes was launched in Adjarra Adovié and a discussion took place with 1,200 students on the Right to Education, followed by a human chain. Science students from the University of Abomey-Calavi did advocacy and awareness raising work for parents living near the lake, where the girls’ gross enrolment rate is 51%.

More than 1,000 children marched up to the presidential residence with the Education Counsellor of the Head of State carrying messages on education for all, whilst others marched to the Mayor of Boukoubé. The coalition has now collected over 100 testimonies of children’s education rights that are being published in a book.
 

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