Help Women Work their Way Out of Poverty in Togo

Background

Together we can empower individuals in Africa who are interested in creating small businesses. This will give them the opportunity to get out of poverty and help in the development of their community through boosting economic development. We will provide small loans for business investments as well as training and coaching to entrepreneurs in the rural areas of the Maritime Region in Togo. In February 2021, we reached our initial funding goal of USD 10,000 and we have now raised the target.

Project update

HR&S and Action10’s programme provides active coaching support of Leaders & development (L&D) and its President.

Leaders and Development (L&D) work with the people involved in the project and the managers to establish TRUST and RESPONSIBILITY for this programme before the support of Rise Centre Togo. Activities include Bookkeeping, Contract sheet, Recruitment and Workshops, Management of ActionInvest funds. In general, each loan taker had two duplicated books that contains every transaction, one with the loan taker and the other with the managers.

L&D activities were constituted with follow-up communication and coaching visit during the term. This supported the implementation and the success of this programme at Agbelouve and ressorts situated at about 50 km and at Aguduvu at about 80 km from Lomé. The neighbouring small villages such as Kpotsokope, Agbodzekpo and Foulani Kondji, Batoumé were at 30 km from Agbelouve. The programme on the field took into account about 150 women and 3 men at Agbelouve and 13 women at Aguduvu. Contracts were signed under the Rise Centre Togo with the groups thanks to L&D.

Links:

• Human Rights & Science - Project Link
• Action10 - Project Link