about

ABENI FOUNDATION is a non-profit charity organisation created for the purpose of assisting orphans, street children and chilren in desparate need. We aim to provide the absolute best education and training possible for these children, sensitise them to the need of African people, so that they will grow to be well-adjusted adults who will play a significant parts in the future progress of African people.

The foundation and our work is funded totally by donations from the directors and caring individuals. Non of our directors draw any wages or expenses from money raised for our work or through our activities. We are not affiliated to any particular religious organisation and our aims are simple and straight from the heart:

to give African children in need, orphans and street children a loving home.

to create a safe and loving environment for these children.

to provide them with a sense of belonging, pride and self determination

to nourish the bodies and minds.

to prepare them for their resposibility towards African people

Our village is located in a rural area a few miles from the town of Parakou in the northern region of the Republic of Benin in West Africa. Some of the children that we care for are from war torn areas like Niger and Chad.

Due to financial constraints we have not been able to provide the children with the kind of home that they need. Our current children home is a very small and getting overcrowded with no running water or bore hole. the village well dries up regularly, which means that the children have to walk at least one and half mile to and from the nearest water source every morning, caring heavy buckets on their heads. We have a very urgent need to renovate, improve and expand our current village so that the children can be housed properly. We have managed to acquire 8 acres of land, where we intend to construct a permanent village and raise poultry. Our fish farm will irrigate the sorrounding farms, the water will be supplied by a drilled a borehole, brought to the surface by a dual functioning pumping and milling machine. Our playground and gym equipments will also function as water pumping mechanisms so that we are not totally dependent on feul. We intend to be totally self sustaining in the next 3 years. our short term vision is to provide a home for 240-400 children in ABENI village and extend our project in the long term to other parts of Africa in other to help a great many more