Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Songhai Centre on BBTV

Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin visits and profiles one of our favorites the Songhai Centre in Benin, West Africa:

She writes:
Aid creates dependence, but small businesses foster independence, the group's logic goes -- and unlike other anti-poverty projects, this one exports more than it imports: specialty food and beverage products produced here (cashew butter, cookies, fruit beverages) are sold and shipped to France and elsewhere around the world...[continue reading]

Hat Tip Xeni!

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