The Rotaract Overseas Project 2006 is a national project organised by RGBI (Rotaract in Great Britain and Ireland).

For more information on Rotaract go to www.rotaract.org.uk.  

The project involves the construction of a module of three classrooms for the public primary school of Agla, Cotonou, in the mainly French speaking Benin, West Africa.

About Agla

Agla primary school is located in a very poor neighbourhood of Cotonou. The school suffered severely from recent flooding and the children receive their lessons in the open air under tin corrugated roofing sheets placed on top of some wooden poles.

The people of the the neighbourhood are mainly involved in farming and fishing. The lack of classrooms makes it easy for the parents, more often than not illiterate themselves, to opt their children out of the school system and attempt survival in agriculture or fishing.

The project aims to help improve the conditions of schooling for the underprivileged children of Agla.

The project team

The team will comprise a number of Rotaractors and two Rotarians, and the project is being carried out with the assistance and approval of the Rotary and Rotaract Clubs of Cotonou who will host us and help us during the project.

This will be a hard-working and demanding project, working totally with local materials, employing local craftsment and labourers to assist us, and local cooks to feed us with the local diet... We will be working dawn to dusk in the African heat, so it should all be great fun! 

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