OUR MISSION
The Batonga Foundation’s mission is to equip the hardest-to-reach girls and young women with knowledge and skills to be agents of change in their own lives and communities.
Batonga delivers high-quality innovative programming so that every single girl and young woman we work with can reach her full social, economic and personal potential.
WHO WE SUPPORT
Batonga equips adolescent girls with mentors and safe spaces to help them learn critical life skills, gain self-confidence, understand their rights, and plan their own economic future.
Batonga accompanies young women as they imagine, build, and implement their income generating plans and professional development strategies to reach economic resilience and independence.
Batonga advocates for transformations on the continent, and help strengthen movements of activists, leaders and change-makers who are challenging the status quo and working towards equality.
The foundation takes a grassroots approach to social change, working with communities including women and men, and girls and boys alike to shift sociocultural perspectives towards a more inclusive future.
OUR WORK
The Batonga Foundation supports over 6,000 adolescent girls aged 14 to 18, and more than 7,000 young women aged 18 to 30.
Batonga’s advocacy initiatives engages 400+ young women gender equality leaders and advocates in 22 francophone African countries
DISCOVER OUR OFFICES IN BENIN AND SENEGAL
WHO WE SUPPORT
We work with community leaders and local mentors to identify girls, often hard to locate, likely to be socially isolated or disadvantaged. Many live on less than $2 a day.
We serve adolescent girls from 14-18, and young women from 18-30.
MEET OUR FOUNDER
ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO
As a girl in Benin, Angélique Kidjo witnessed first-hand some of her friends and peers forced into life decisions that went against their rights, their wellbeing, and their dreams.
She realized that adolescence is a critical period of a woman’s life, and that with strong social support and access to resources and opportunities, girls aim higher and achieve more.
