Looms for nonregulated professional training (Benin)

In most African countries there is hardly any professional training for women and when there is, it is not usually run by the national government but rather in the hands of solidarity and charity organisations and institutions which are frequently from abroad.

In Benin in 2014 17% of young women aged 20 to 24 were already married, or had a stable partner before turning 18, and 98% of adolescents aged 15 to 19 were mothers. Poverty hampers keeping girls and boys in secondary schooling, but gender discrimination increases the proportion of boys who prolong their education compared to girls, who must carry out jobs which seldom paid and/or get married at an early age.