Beninese health center wins award
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COTONOU, Benin—Under the leadership of Raphael Edou and a 30-member council of churches in Benin, West Africa, the clinic that began as a single rented room has become an internationally recognized organization.
At an awards dinner on Jan. 15 at the Global Development Network conference in Beijing, China, the Japanese government awarded Bethesda Health Centre a $50,000 grant for the “Most Innovative Development Project.” Before nearly 600 individuals representing more than 93 countries, Edou shared about the mission and work of Bethesda.
“[Our] small beginning helped us to grow step by step,” he said. “Bethesda’s staff fears God and avoids corruption. We don’t merely do something for our salary. We want to reach people in need.”
The conference explores original and imaginative approaches to development. Edou said Bethesda will use the grant to conduct surveys and develop their current programming as well as be more directly involved in the United Nations “Millennium Campaign” to cut the number of Africans living beneath the poverty line in half by 2015.—Mennonite Mission Network
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