Mali - Doni Blon & Benkadi Bougou

Hotel training center and agro-ecological farm school

Our partner in the field: Terres Jaunes Mali

Location: Ségou, Mali

Project duration: 2011 - 2022

Our mission

The Centre de Formation en Hôtellerie, Restauration et Tourisme Doni Blon was set up in 2011 in Ségou, Mali, to provide an apprenticeship and professional integration opportunity for young people in socio-economic difficulty. Training included reception, catering and tourism-related skills, as well as a variety of theoretical courses (French, English, IT, accounting). Visitors to the hotel and the region concretely shared values with our association and with Terres Jaunes-Mali, and contributed to the development of this application hotel. Since 2013, to address the difficulties of the tourism sector in the country, following the deterioration of the security situation, Tereo has gradually reoriented training towards the field of agroecology with the opening, in 2014, of the Benkadi Bougou farm-school.

The network

During the period of Tereo's support, the Doni Blon - Benkadi Bougou project directly trained and supported 357 people into employment.
Through this project, Tereo has also directly supported the creation or substantial strengthening of more than 100 family businesses or farmers' cooperatives. The association has also supported the creation of the Benkadi Bougou Network, which today brings together more than 300 small-scale agro-ecological producers in the Ségou region to share best practices, exchange seeds and products, and engage in advocacy.