Five months ago, we announced our partnership with “The Force” who offered two of our girls the opportunity to get a degree in tailoring and batik. During these months, the girls have been very motivated and productive and improved their skills in this field a great deal. Soon they will reach halftime of their apprenticeship and we are looking forward to follow up on their work in Kpalime in their last few months as well. Take a look at some of their great work in the pictures below (they even made a fabric with our logo on it 🙂 )

We are currently looking for a volunteer intern to help us with administrative tasks, fundraising activities and a lot of other interesting projects. Have a look at our job advertisement and feel free to contact us (neda@educationtogo.org) if you are interested:

Education Togo_Inserat_Praktikum (PDF)

Come be part of our amazing team! We are looking forward to your applications! 🙂

In addition to building schools we also provide the local communities in Togo with extra trainings and financial support for educational purposes. Here are two updates on these topics:

1. In Togo, especially girls don’t always have the opportunity to get proper education due to cultural and financial reasons. However, as we want to make sure that families also send girls to school, we continued our scholarship programme which we initiated in 2011 and recently provided 290 girls with scholarships for the upcoming school term. See pictures of some of these girls below!
2. As every year during the summer holidays, we organised a computer training for 30 young girls from our communities. At this training the girls learned how to use a computer, how to read and write e-mails and how to create Microsoft Office documents in order to have the ability to write applications, research the World Wide Web and communicate with other people around the globe. See pictures of the training below!

This year, Education Togo has awarded a total of 260 scholarships to girls at our 5 schools (CEG Salimdè, CEG Bougabou, CEG Haloukpaboundou, CEG Kalangha and CEG Yara Kabiyè).

These scholarships cover the tuition fees and the necessary school supplies, such as books, exercise books, pencils, a school bag and school uniform. In order to avoid misuse, scholarships are not paid to the families but granted in material formto specificstudents, who are chosen according to their performance at school and the indigence of the respective family.

Since school education after primary school is not fully financed by the government, families have to pay tuition fees for their kids to go to school. In many cases families can only afford to send one of their kids to school which is often the oldest son. Furthermore, girls are much more likely to drop out of school due to early pregnancy, child labour, child trafficking or simply because they often have to help their parents raise their smaller siblings, keep the house and the farm. That leaves a lot of girls uneducated – which is why Education Togo started the scholarship program.

One scholarship amounts to around EUR 25-30 in total per year.

If you want to support us to grant all these scholarships again (or even more) next year, we would be very thankful for your donation:

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