Gewista says thank you – and so do we!

Through Gewista’s Christmas charity campaign on Respekt.net, Education Togo received a donation of  4.142,85 Euro towards our yearly scholarships for girls as well as towards new school benches for our building in Gassi-Gassi! The whole ET team would like to thank Gewista for including us in the campaign and for helping us to improve girls […]

What happened in 2018?

Dear Education Togo Community, From our whole team in Austria, Germany and Togo – we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2019! We are very thankful for all our supporters in 2018! Thanks to you, we’ve been able to realise many of our projects. Here’s a quick review of the main […]

Scholarships 2018/19

Once again like every year we achieved to provide scholarships for the upcoming school year for 300 girls in need. Many families in Togo are struggling to pay the fees for all their children to go to school so most of the young girls end up staying at home. Thanks to the scholarships this wasn’t […]

100 school scholarships for girls in Togo

The team of Education Togo is more than delighted to announce that our scholarship fundraising campaign has been successfully completed via respekt.net. Thanks to the generous contributions of 40 donors the needed amount of 1.687 Euros was raised in less than 2 months. The donations translated into 100 school scholarships will enable 100 girls from […]

Education Togo goes Togo!

In May this year, we finally made it to Togo again! Three of our team members travelled to Togo in order to visit our schools and communities – and to take part at the opening ceremony of our latrines at C.E.G. Salimde. During our visits, we were able to talk to students, teachers as well […]

National day of Togo in Vienna

To celebrate the national day of Togo, the Togolese honorary consul in Austria, Erich Szabo, invited us to a celebration at the Grand Hotel in Vienna on April 26th. Besides us, our friends from Tailoring Togo and many more people who engage in Togo attended the event that day. Thank you for the invitation and […]

International Worker’s Day: 1st of May 2018

One of Education Togo’s main goals is the empowerment of women in our communities. Therefore, we are running five associations of savings banks, where groups of women pay a share every end of the week. At some point, they are permitted to take out a grant if they need funding for a special investment. The […]

New project to improve the infrastructure in our communities: Latrines in Salimde

Beginning of March, we commissioned a new project in Togo: Building latrines next to our school in Salimde. The idea behind this project is to offer a more comfortable school day to our students since especially for girls, not having a toilet facility close by is a big issue. The latrines will eliminate this problem […]

Renovations at C.E.G. Bougabou

Due to severe weather, some of the school’s interior as well as parts of the building were damaged and needed to be repaired and replaced. The renovations are fully under way so the school can be reopened in its new look shortly and our students can go back to class soon. Since many of the […]

Happy International Women’s Day 2018 !

On March 8th, people all over the world celebrated women’s day. We honoured this day by teaching special lessons in our schools in Togo. The girls learned about having self-confidence, how having a proper school education is important for their future and that a degree can help them have an independent life as grown-ups. We […]