BBC World Service meets Barth and students!
The BBC World Service journalist, Nick Barker interviews APEED founder Barth in Parakou. The interview, part of a global story on the meetings that occur everyday in internet cafes, focused on Barth meeting key supporters for APEED whilst at work in an internet cafe.
Stories from the blog will be aired on BBC World Service Radio and later in the year form part of a 3 part TV documentary. This is hopefully a sound bite of more to come…if you’re feeling inspired leave a comment on the site.
December 1st, 2009 at 7:27 pm
It’s amazing: an NGO run by children for children! These children found a way of heoping each other out, to stay in school - with NO HELP from adults except the kind shopkeepers who gave some exercise books, and a couple of sympathetic local authority officers who got some school fees waived for the neediest children. Surely this group needs some recognition and more help. Now the leader, Barth, is in his early twenties - and the group is still going! The World Bankand donors are always looking for ’sustainability’. Well, here is a remarkably sustained effort - by children. Yet they have attracted NO financial assistance at all from donors working in Benin or from international NGOs working there…