Togo, with its
population of 8.279 million (2020), is located in West Africa with Ghana to its west,
Benin to its east and Burkina Faso to its north with its southern border
meeting the Gulf of Guinea. Following independence form France in 1960, Togo
came under a number of oppressive regimes until tentative steps towards
democracy started to emerge in 2007. Despite this, many see these
steps as stalled and Togo remains relatively unstable and one of the poorest
countries in the world and, despite being one of the world's main cocoa and coffee exporters, it remains heavily dependant on foreign aid.
Today Togo is in 167th place out of 189 countries and territories in 2019 when ranked in
terms of life expectancy, literacy, access to knowledge and the living
standards of a country with a life expectancy of 61.04 years (2019). Half of Togo's
population live under the international poverty line, one out of every thirty children
in Togo die of the preventable disease malaria, accounting for 25% of all
childhood deaths, not least because, although the disease in rampant, only about
15% of children under the age of five in Togo sleep under a malaria net despite
being available for just a pound or so, but out of the reach of poor families. Less than one in five Togolese is able to use improved sanitation facilities and there are similar deficits in housing, medical infrastructure and education.
Child sponsor programs in Togo work with
orphaned and abandoned children, the promotion of children's rights in a
country where culturally
children are seen to have no such rights and harsh, physical abuse of them is seen
as acceptable as is enforced hard labour, access to education and healthcare
and developing secure food and water supplies. You
can help when your sponsor a child in Togo.
Child Sponsor Togo: SOS Children's Villages
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Child Sponsor Togo: BrightPoint
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Child Sponsor Togo: Volunteer in Togo
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