Our history
The GMM’s charter dates back to the 30th November 1984, but its history has began many years earlier. It was the 4th of March 1971, when Alpidio Balbo, a trader from Merano who spent some weeks in Lomé (Togo) to recover after a serious car accident, arrived at Bohicon, a small village in the South of Benin, which was called Dahomey at that time.
Alpidio Balbo
“If I look back to my way in the land where i live, and in the land that has become homeland to my heart, I am surprised and overwhelmed..."
