Strategic Pillar
Entrepreneurial coaching, financial literacy, and capacity building for youth and women.
Cooperatives equipped with processing machinery and trained in bookkeeping.
Entrepreneurs mentored from initial business idea to active local market sales.
Of ventures coached by our Tovilab mentors remain active and profitable after 18 months.
High school girls trained in coding, electronics, and engineering sciences with WOMENVAI.
Youth employment and female economic empowerment are central to Benin's future. Confronting informal instability, YFC provides practical Tovilab Academy certificates, small business incubation, savings circles, and girls' STEM education through the international KidsVai project alongside WOMENVAI.
We support sustainable venture creation, train women cooperatives in financial management, and provide business mentoring to boost local economies.
Promoting durable livelihoods, progressive formalization, and workplace occupational safety.
Accelerated digital literacy, robotics, coding for girls (KidsVai), and business management.
Equipping women agricultural processing cooperatives with gear and autonomous credit circles.
A proven 4-stage framework ensuring grassroots ownership, total transparency, and long-term sustainability.
3-day immersive bootcamps identifying genuine local market demands and structuring viable business models.
Hands-on modules: cash registers, gross margins calculation, WhatsApp Business sales, and credit management.
Providing physical equipment (mills, presses, solar kits, computers) to bootstrap without predatory loans.
Bi-monthly on-site advisor visits to optimize production, sales channels, and regulatory paperwork.
Near-impossible access to commercial bank loans for youth without collateral.
Establishing certified peer savings circles (tontines) and joint-liability group guarantee funds.
Over 14 million FCFA mobilized in internal rotating funds with a 100% repayment record.
Societal barriers steering young girls away from STEM and tech disciplines.
Rollout of international KidsVai program featuring robotics, AI discovery, and role-model mentoring by women engineers.
100% of participants in Lokossa and Kandi opted for STEM tracks in their high school diplomas.
« With Youth For Challenge's backing, our women cooperative modernized our cassava processing. Our earnings tripled, and all our children can now attend school with pride. »
Agricultural Cooperative President • Lokossa (Mono)
Skills & Entrepreneurship
International partnership initiative with European NGO WOMENVAI empowering young girls in STEM disciplines and digital technologies to dismantle gender barriers.
Lycée de Jeunes Filles de Lokossa & CEG 2 Kandi · 2023 – 2027
Education & Achievement
Targeted remedial academic coaching targeting rural public secondary schools with lower exam pass rates, paired with textbook and learning kit distributions.
Ouinhi (Zou) & Lokossa (Mono) · 2024 – 2027
Economic Empowerment
Vocational skills certification in income-generating activities and financial literacy training for rural women farming groups.
Lokossa, Athiémé (Atchontoé), Comè · 2023 – 2027
Be aged 18 to 35 (no age limit for women collectives), reside in one of our 15 intervention communes, and have a community-relevant venture idea.
Corporates, donors, local councils or diaspora citizens: let’s co-build a high-impact, transparent partnership in your home municipality.
