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"There are many people who can do big things—but there are very few people who will do the small things."
- Blessed Mother Teresa
 

 

Benin is in Western Africa, bordering the Bight of Benin, between Nigeria and Togo. The entire country is a total of 112,620 square kilometers, which makes it slightly smaller in size than the state of Pennsylvania. Benin was a French Colony from 1872 to 1960, and after several changes in leadership it became the first...

The goal of Service for the Love of God is to improve the lives of the people of Benin, a small, democratic and very poor county in the western part of Africa. The people there have many needs, and we have learned that the best way to address these needs is through education. Our educational endeavors there...

During our 2007 visit to Benin, our Honorary Chairperson Archbishop Marcel Agboton requested that we focus our efforts on education, particularly in a poor, lake village of Benin called So-Ava. Many families in So-Ava cannot afford to send their children to school, especially their young daughters. We agreed that...