benin but live in new york

i reviewed your latest dvds, a continuation of your humanitarian efforts about republic of benin.It goes without saying that you did a very good job.i recommend that people buy these dvds,,after all the proceeds go back to the people in the footages.I think every african american in search of realities of the past should visit those places..bravo chris

Ottawa Ontario Canada

We found your site before going to Benin it helped. We were able to say we had a little back ground when we arrived there. People were AMAZING, the food was to die for....ah and don't get me started on the kids, just great!

I was apr of Jeun'Espoir Afrique Benin 2004. A groupe of 16 (5 adults form 30 years old and up and 11 students from 24 to 16 years old)

website is http://www.jeunespoirjamaique.com/JEAweb/index.htm

I would highly recommend this country for either travel of humanitarian work.

A houanu ka ka,

Edabo

Potsdam, NY

I must say that I have looked at your website a number of times. I'm in my second year of college and I've been hoping to join the Peace Corps since I was in high school. I stumbled upon your site after doing some research on Benin. I would love to travel there to do my PC work when and if I am accepted to the program. I'm hoping to use your site to help me acquire some of the language to strengthen my qualities for the application! Thanks so much for your dedication to the site and not allowing it to fall to pieces as other private sites tend to.

p.s. this is my #1 bookmark online!

tallahassee

nice site

France

This site is totally amazing!!! I've not read it all, but the few is already impressive!! My mom was born in Benin (Cotonou) but always wanted to live the occidental way, un-teaching us (her children) to the basics of our culture. Now thanks to you, I can talk with my grand-parents, living in Africa, with great pleasure!!! A houanu ka ka..... God bless you!!!

france

Being in BENIN right now, this site is a blessing!!! dédébléo, take care of yourself...

Niantic Ct.

Chris,
Your new site additions are great. Keep up the good work.

USA

Website to be the Home for each and every Orphanage in this World: http://www.MyOrphanage.org

Croatia

Hi, it is always nice to see revealed something or someplace so nice which would otherwise remain unknown. Feel free to check my site on english island hvar, german insel hvar or italian isola di hvar, some nice photos of a far away earth spot there!

usa

like the site a lot

Ohio/Indiana

Wow!! I just wanted to say your website is amazing! No one ever knows anything or has even heard of Benin before and then i find this amazing site! I spent 6 months in Benin with Mercy Ships (YWAM) 3 years ago...and too often i really do miss africa. Thank you for reminding me yet again and being able to relive the all the wonderful memories again! Blessings!

c'est super ce que tu fait Chris, simplement félicitations.............................bye

Greetings from Gloucester, Massachusetts. U.S.A.

East Coast Gangsta

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Tanzania/living in us

I really like your site,its really cool ,however i recently named my son Ganvie,because of the meanings spiritual vibration but I really want to properly pronunciate it could someone send me a phonetic spelling of some sort ,Hes 3 months and ive tried everything! peace and blessings.

Harlingen, Texas

Dear Chris: I have spent lots of hours purusing your site: "FON is FUN" and have really enjoyed...My daughter is there currently, as a PCV and as matter of fact, I believe you visited w/her in Allada, Patty Camacho....Visiting your site has really eased the pain of missing her,....In a world so far away, thanks to your site, I feel that she is really close....I really enjoyed the site and thanks for lots of helpful information..... It really was FON!!! Linda

Portland OR

Dear Chris:
Re: "Seven Years Later"
Thanks you for sharing your insights about your recent return to Benin, a journey, so far anyway, only in my dreams. I found it very informative and thought provoking. Elizabeth Hyde Samuels, RPCV Benin 1975-77

U.S.

I was pleansatly surprised when I found this website after googling traveling to Benin. It is very well done and gives quite a lot of good information in one place. I am very thankful to the makers of the site, I've just started planning my trip and it has already helped me immensely.

France, living in germany

super les nouvelles photos!!!
Decidement ton site est vraiment mon site prefere!:))

St Louis, Missouri

Thanks man, this website is great. I will come & visit it every now and then. I am originally from Benin but do not know much about the place other than a couple trips ( last one was 11 years ago). My parents actually moved there now and looking at this site makes me kind of visualize the place. My mom is from allada, a place I never been to. Thanks a lot

italy - italia - benevento (regione campania)

please help me: i am looking for my friend.
his name is anselmo maria marcos andi he is a missionary monk and i haven't news of him since date of his arrive in benin in november 2003. please help me, he is my spiritual brother

FON-*******-TASTIC!!!

North Carolina

'Well, of course the best-intended efforts.... AFTER signing the guestbook on your site with what I thought was humor oh-so-clever, THEN I read the other entries. AAAAAUGH! sigh. I fear that some people may mistake my humor for denigration of the Beninese and their lifestyle. That was never my intention.. I was only making a tribute to the reality of your writing style.... Perhaps I am inviting trouble, and readers will understand my intent. I write back to you only because I do not want to cause you trouble. Your love of Benin and it's people is fully evident in all your writing and the monumental effort you have made in creating Fon Is Fun. Only a moron could mistake your true feelings for anything less than love and admiration for this remarkable country and it's people. I came away from visiting Fon Is Fun 0 and I spent a couple hours there over three days of exploring! with an appreciating for how resourceful and adaptive these people are, friendly.. and well, so many good attributes! At a time when others in Africa and the world EVERYWHERE are obsessed with violence and hatred and murder, Benin is an oasis to be cherished an nourished. I only hope that outside "help" does not spoil this treasure. I am keeping my fingers crossed that a little piece of Benin comes to live with me soon and you know who she is. I will be so honored to have even a little four-legged Beninese in my family!

North Carolina, USA

Dear Chris - I have toured your website and enjoyed every moment. Your stories are well written and captivating - I WAS THERE, they were so realistic. Thank goodness, however, I emerged from the bush taxi wearing neither chicken poo nor goat urine,and somehow managed to avoid straining my back by letting the rest of you lift the car for tire repair efforts. whew! I will be visting soon the little dogs you so kindly sent across the ocean to your friends in Virginia. Great choices for a non-basenji man! Once back in the States, we will no doubt have to turn you into a show dog person sooner or later so you will know what all the fuss is about!
I have added a link to your website to the LINKS page of my own in hopes of bringing Benin to an even wider audience, and glad to do so. Thank you, thank you, for introducing me to such a wondeful country, even more wonderful people. They will now have a special place in my heart thanks to you sharing your experience in their land with the outside world.

Belgique

je trouve ton site très bien fait et je crois que je vais y revenir souvent parce que je sort avec un beau béninois qui parle très bien français mais à qui j'aimerais dire des mots doux en fon comme c'est une des langues qu'il parle aussi
alors merci pour l'aide que m'apporte ton site
à bientot