India

I am very happy to visit your website. I convey to you all my congratulations.

France

ce site est vraiment super... je suis d'origine béninoise, et je suis née en france , je ne parle pas bien ma langue maternelle ( Fon), mais grâce, à ce site je suis motivée!!c'est génial !!!
continuez!

LONDON (ORIGINALLY FROM AKLAMPA)

MI KOUDASO! Well done. I love this and i hope more people will get to know about it and help in making it a complete success. God bless you.

Pays-Bas

Site excéllente! J'ai surtout apprécié la possibilité d'écouter la prononciation correcte.

USA

i am researching for a school project and this site was very helpful for pictures and information on life in benin ... merci beaucoup

Cotonou

I am very happy to visit your website. I convey to you all my congratulations for your courageous committment to sort out our country with its great culture and languages from darkness.
My regards

Ooltewah

You have a great site!

Tommy

Portland OR

Dear Chris:
Thanks for your e-mail. The K-1-2 kids were enthusiastic about the presentation and have been wrapping themselves in fabrics from Benin and talking with drums all month. Your web-site is wonderful and is the kind of place you can return to and always learn something new. I purchased It Takes a Village as did the teacher which we wouldn't have otherwise known about. I came back before the computer age so you can imagine how very difficult it was to get much information. Still, even now not many websites have this much on such a remote place all in one place. I'll probably return again and again. I'm a member of the Columbia River Peace Corps Association and have considered Friends of Benin. It's something else that didn't exist on my return. Thanks again. Elizabeth (Betsy) Samuels (Hyde).

California

Wow! Your website is absolutely amazing! I read all of your journal entries/ short stories. You are a fantastic writer. I am going in for my PC interview next week. I hope to serve in Africa. I volunteered on my own for three months in Ghana, and three months was not enough time! Plus I was paying my own way. The PC thinks I'm doing them a favor, but really it's gonna be the other way around. Thanks again for your very informative and fun site!!

Portland OR

Dear Chris:
I am preparing a presentation for my daughter's K-1-2 class for tomorrow. I really appreciated being able to jog my memory. I was a PCV in Porto Novo from 1975 to 1977. I'm thinking of teaching them how to count to ten in Fon. They already know how to in Swahili. I'm looking forward to going back to the site again when I have more time. I'll let you know how it goes.

Ossining, NY

Hi Lisa,
I actually participated in a Worm Week in Benin but I didn't orgainze it so I can't give you much details. Stacia Bippus is the one who coordinated it. It took place during the week of 2/14/97 in Illaro ( a village near Pobé). I have fond memories of it. We did all sorts of diffirent
activities like making Tofu, having discussions about how to avoid Guinea Worm, demonstrations on how to use the water filter etc. If you need to know more than that, post a message to the Friends of Benin e-groups at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FriendsofBenin/ to try to find Stacia as I have lost touch with her. Also present that I can remember were Colleen Renk, and Carol Brillhart. Ask for them too on the list server and I'm sure someone will be able to give you a contact.

Bonne Chance!

Chris

originally Concord, MA

Hi Chris,
I am an RPCV from Niger and am doing my MPH thesis, at Emory on worm weeks. After doing a random search, I happened upon your web site. I have not been able to get any info. On Worm weeks in Benin. Please contact me if you have more info. As I would greatly appreciate your help in accurately documenting worm week as a health ed. strategy!
Thanks

Serra Talhada - Brazil

Since I am really that crazy about African languages, I want to thank you to congratulate you for the wonderful pages about FON is Fun.

Francisco

Mississippi

Chris,

This website is awesome. I have been interested in Africa for many years. I served in Kenya and Tanzania as a missionary from 1999 to 2000. Recently I made a trip to Togo and Benin and really enjoyed being in the bush with the Beninese people. Thanks for all of your effort in make this website top-notch. I have really enjoyed the stories.

Czech Republic

I would like to speak fon, because my husband is from Benin. These pages can help me very well. Thanks.

FRANCE

KOUDO AZO....You made such a Good job with Fongbé is Fun....I was also in Benin from 1994 to 1996 working at the french cultural center in Cotonou and Parakou......and since then i'm going back to benin almost one time a year.
AND WHAT ABOUT YOU NOW?

Eiwédévonou Yovo

Atavi KiKi

Australia

Your site has been incredibly helpful as I prepare for my 3 month trip to Benin. Before finding your site I really had no idea of what to expect in Benin! I hope to know some basic Fon phrases before I go so I can at least -try- to communicate with the locals! Thanks for putting so much work into the site.

New Jersey, USA

Thank you for your wonderful site! My daughter is in Benin finishing up her PC training and I haven't received photos from her yet. So I can now see some of the places where she has visited and now I can hear the "Yovo" song she told me about!!

France

Bonjour,

Nous sommes 4 jeunes et nous avons réalisé une action humanitaire cet été au Bénin à Ouidah plus précisément).

Pour plus d'infos : http://www.massaga.fr.st

A bientôt et bravo pour ton site (il corrige notamment beuacoup de fautes do'rthographes de notre "fon").

Martin.

Paris

This is a great site, a really wonderful all-round introduction to the Fon language, and the people and country of Benin. I feel I've learned a lot about this otherwise quite obscure country, and I'm very grateful that you too the time and effort to put this website together. I'd also like to commend your approach: your site is refreshingly free of sentimentality or cynicism. I'm sure you must have done a lot of good during your time in the PC. I wish you all the best in your 'civilian' post-celebrity life,

Poland

Your website was my first contact with written Fon. I could make my friend happy sending him a sms in Fon - his mother tongue - and learning some phrases.

Poland

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Maryland

Chris, this page is excellent. I am in the process of getting my PCV application in for next year. I just came across your website on an info search. I really enjoyed your Rich and Famous on $6 a day essay(you had me laughing hard). Thanks for sharing your memories and I look forward to reading more of your stories.

Germany

Hallo!

This website is really great!!!!!
I am very happy to find something about FON an Benin.
(Excuses for my bad english).
I visited Benin 2 weeks ago. I visited Cotonou, Porto Novo, Ouidah and the villages Dessah-Ahounouzou and Cana.
It was the first time i met my african family there.
They are all FON-Speakers, so I learned a few words.
I really really hope to return to Benin in two oder three years. Maybe I can learn some FON to communicate better with the people there.
I hoped to find a German-Fon-Dictionary, but I guess there is none.
So, thank you very very much for this Website.
I will read everything!!!!!!!!
I am really happy about!

Thank you so much!

Assiba