My Nonprofit Reviews

Batonga focuses on girls and young women who have no access to traditional educational. Today across Benin thousands of young women participate in Batonga programs where they learn how to become entrepreneurs and support themselves.
Significantly, in Batonga villages, boys and young men now view their female colleagues with increased respect. With a modest per girl investment, Batonga is producing long term benefits.

Batonga is lead by Angelique Kidjo who uses her status as an African superstar to reach out to vulnerable girls and remind them that they can succeed. Batonga provides programming designed for their clientele and works to ensure that the girls who have been left behind by other development efforts can gain critical life skills.

Batonga helps educate young women in Africa. In most African nations, only a small percentage of girls are able to attend secondary school. But research has shown that educating girls is vital to improving living standards in developing nations. Educated girls marry later, have fewer children, are less likely to die in childbirth and their children have lower mortality rates.

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