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Capital: Porto Novo
Area: 112,620 km²
Population: 6,3 million(December 2000 est.)
Ethnic groups: Fon and Adja (59%), Yoruba (9%), Bariba and Somba (14%)
Official language(s): French
Religion(s): Animism (Voodoo, 60%), Muslim (15%), Christian (20%)
Currency: 1 CFA franc = 100 centimes
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Our Facilities
As a result of a field study carried out in Benin an agreement about the construction of an SOS Children's Village was signed by SOS Kinderdorf International and the government of Benin in January 1985. Construction works of the first SOS Children's Village in Benin started in 1986. In 1987, one year after the construction had started, the SOS Children's Village Abomey-Calavi was completed. It is located in Calavi, 17 kms from the capital of Cotonou, near the city of lagoons, Ganvié, where many people still live in pile-dwellings. There is a high unemployment rate in this area, where hardly any industry exists. Hence, the living conditions of the people living there are very poor. In 1987 the first group of children moved into the new SOS Children's Village. On February 11, 1989 the SOS Children's Village Abomey-Calavi was officially opened.
Due to the great need and harsh living conditions of abandoned children in the north of the country a second SOS Children's Village was planned in Natitingou, a provincial town about 450 km north of Cotonou. The construction works started in the middle of December 1997. In October 1999, finally, the first group of 37 children moved into their new home.
Contact:
Association des Villages d'Enfants SOS au Bénin
B.P. 82
Abomey-Calavi
Benin
tel. +229-36 07 12
fax +229-36 07 12
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