Main missions of the association

• Support and assist actions to promote culture and tourism in the departments of Atacora and Donga (northern Benin).
• Promote tourism in the Atacora and Donga departments, making it an effective lever for local development and value creation for local populations.
• Contribute to the development of young people through educational and cultural activities.
• Encourage and support all development efforts and initiatives for the well-being of young people in particular, and vulnerable sections of the population in general.

A responsible approach

The collaboration between Le Bélier and the EDeCT association provides funding for projects that help empower local populations. Since 2016, Le Bélier has given 5% of all its trips to l’EDeCT, which focuses on young Beninese people, offering them the opportunity to take a 3-year vocational training course leading to a diploma (sewing, hairdressing, quilting, masonry, electricity, and so on).

Completed projects

• Project of creating 3,600 recyclable masks for vulnerable communities in the towns of Natitingou, Tanguiéta, Boukoumbé, Kouandé, Porto-Novo, Adjara and Ouidah… as part of solidarity action against the spread of Covid-19, in collaboration with “Double Sens et Voyage”.
• Enrolment of young people from the towns of Natitingou, Kouandé, Tanguieta, Boukoumbé and Dassa-Zomé in apprenticeship programs (hairdresser, vulganizer, motorcycle and car mechanic, tour guide and driver).
• Provision of driving licenses for several young people and local tourism guides.
• Electrification of the maternity ward at Taneka-Koko village health center in Donga.
• Schooling for Peulh children.
• Manufacture of rabbit cages and rabbit farming.
• Creation of a local bakery in the village of Tanougou, Tanguieta commune.