promoting training

Attending school in Togo is neither obligatory nor free. Many capable young people are unable to profit from a school education for financial reasons, which results in selection based on wrong criterias. In the current school year 2004/05, we once again made it possible for 153 young people to attend school. Most of the supported pupils are orphans or half-orphans and are at a stage between the first year of elementary school and the equivalent of a high school diploma. We pay their school fee, uniform, exercise books and lend them study books from our library. We often also help them to procure medicines or other essential items to enable them to successfully get through school.
It is our most important desire to not only support these young people and their families financially, but to also give them advice and assistance, accompany them and to encourage them. 20 people, all Africans, support and accompany the pupils, as well as a few apprentices and 12 students. They do this without payment although some of them are themselves practically destitute.
We also founded and equipped two simple village schools. This enables a further 150 children from classes 1 to 4 of elementary school to profit from a nearly free school education.