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It was worth it
Aug 22, 2004 ... of our world, the world has a duty to heal it, heal it we can and we must. Tony Blair But if foreigners living here in Togo can live a life where they don't care (or do nothing about, its the same thing) and they can ignore, if they choose to, the ... |
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The Biggest TKMax in the world
Jul 31, 2004 ... . Wellwellwell, We went on a Monday morning just after they had received there deliveries, and it is a fairly normal market for Togo, lots of wooden shack type things sprawling, instead of food, all sorts of clothes where on sail, from baby clothes to ... |
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Short- Random obervations
Jul 15, 2004 Random Things I've recently realised. Have begun to notice that a surprisingly large number of my friends are getting malaria, so my bedroom is now a fortress, Feel like a true expat!!! I was doing all the recommended things like spraying, using the Air ... |
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Accra to Lome
Jul 5, 2004 ... when I got off the plane (might not have been for me though!!) The next day I jumped on a bus to Aflao, the Border to with Togo, It was good to get out of the city and see some of the country side, although as I was sitting in the front seats there where ... |
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Following the Gaddi shepherds [trek day 2]
Jul 15, 2007 (1 photos) I managed to avoid the dreaded early-morning call of nature yesterday, but this morning I had to drag myself out of my cosy sleeping bag into the crisp dawn, and then find a suitable rock. There is no lack of those, though in future I might go earlier ... |
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Everything is changing
Aug 26, 2004 ... Last day is Monday, I have to visit another NGO tomorrow!!) ------ The title is true, seriously so much stuff has hanged in my "Togo Life" over the last few days, firstly the rota has changed for the guards (every house has a guard who sits outside, he ... |
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I'm not depressed honest
Aug 24, 2004 Hellooo, well after writing that last entry I felt as though a weight was off my shoulders, I think everything had just been building up and I didnt really tell anyone about it; but I also now know that I didnt really have much chance for reflection, and ... |
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My life aint normal
Jul 26, 2004 ... and was just gunna correct it before putting it public, it was meant to be vaguely amusing and about the weird differences between Togo and the UK. But then yesterday I encountered a guy whose 12 yr old daughter died yesterday morning after being sick for ... |
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Settling in
Jul 13, 2004 ... there remaining family members(most are orphans but the large African families look after the kids in the summer) I thought great yes fantastic. Togo isn't very big and once we'd left the capital it wasn't long before we were in some villages, most of the ... |
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Allé revenir
Aug 12, 2004 (13 photos) I've a few things to talk about today; it could be along entry but Ill try to break it up into cunning sections, these being my Visit to Church, 5 Crying Babies and Swimming lessons Ive also spent hours uploading photos!! so click on the thumbnails ... |
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First Impressions of the childrens Village
Jul 7, 2004 So I had many preconceptions of what Id be doing here, and me and Isabel had spent a while planning how it would all work out but like all good plans the reality is totally different. The first time I walked in the village (which is in the capital (Lome), ... |
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Im Still here!! And Im happy
Jul 22, 2004 (10 photos) ... , and there are no HIV+ children on the village, this is for a number of reasons and is nothing to do with the stigma as Togo is quite good and honest about AIDS, but SOS does try and give them a better life whilst they are still alive, giving money for ... |
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A Quote
Aug 8, 2004 ... when I said "I'm going to take a week off and go travelling" I managed to procrastinate so effectively that I never left Togo!! instead I visited lot of other NGO's (Non-Governmental Organisation's / aid organisations) That was quite cool and I got to ask ... |
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Ghana to Togo
Mar 17, 2003 (6 photos) ... side of the falls, it was a spectacular place where you can apparently have bat for dinner, but instead we left for the Togo border and spent the night camping on the border town's football pitch. Ghana has been a wonderful place full of the friendliest ... |
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TogoLand
Nov 21, 2008 (8 photos) ... prends plein de photos. On continue ensuite vers Agbodrafo, où je loue une pirogue pour que l'on puisse traverser le lac Togo. Superbe expérience, ils n'en avaient jamais fais et moi je suis heureux d'être là dans ce décor... Paradisiaquement Togolais. Grâce à ... |
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I can speak French??
Jul 9, 2009 Well, I am VERY behind with where I actually am in the world, so this is just a very quick entry mostly so that each town appears on the map! My first Togolese town was a nice little place, not much going on and I was only there about 16 hours and it ... |
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Togothon day 2, Part II
Oct 2, 2009 (13 photos) ... . with that, we took off again. Free water (though we did hand the police a little money to cover it), free oranges, a contact in togo, and much much lifted spirits. We headed toward the closest hotel in Tabligbo. |
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Togothon day 3, part III
Oct 3, 2009 (8 photos) so we were back in kouve before 4pm--just like we had said we would be in the note we left for the proprietor this morning. We were all in need of sugar and water for re-hydration, so we ordered fanta to drink and a couple 1.5L waters. we sat at the ... |
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Day 31 July 31 Tema to Lome
Jul 31, 2009 (5 photos) ... car came to the crossing. We went to meet him and waited by the car for the last stage of the process getting the car into Togo. There is a lot beach here and very little development along it. We tried a couple of hotels near the beach but they were too ... |
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back to auberges des etoiles for a night
Nov 18, 2009 (7 photos) So on wednesday morning, Hayley, Kari, Clancey, Kaleigh and I all met in Kaleigh and Clancey's room around 8 to leave for Togo. We called the number that the proprietor gave us and I actually got to talk to him for a minute. I've been out of the french- ... |
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"Baptaime Africain" African Baptism
Feb 7, 2009 (1 photos) ... that very day, but bethel visited me ! *name changed The brother's in that particular part of Togo need the prayer's of those abroad very much. The streets of Lomé are no longer prosperous, booming and clean as i had thought ... |
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Hospitals
Jul 21, 2009 I have a LOT to say about The Social Centre, but barely any time left before I have to get back before the gate is locked... (it's 8:30 pm..), and I really wanted to keep this separate anyway, so I'll come back to all the other stuff another time. Today ( ... |
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Le Centre social
Jul 29, 2009 I lasted a grand total of two weeks at the social centre. It was incredibly frustrating... Every morning, they'd come in before 7.30 (do you know how long it's been since I've woken up after 6 am?! It is ridiculous.) and so the morning meeting ... |
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Day 73 - Togo, Lome to Kpalime - Into the Hills
Jan 20, 2009 ... fun's just beginning. Stopped off at Kpalime for cook group shopping. Oliver and I went in search of an Adebayor Togo football shirt as he's trying to collect home countries of Arsenal players. No luck unfortunately. Market was a load ... |
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Welcome to West Africa
Sep 12, 2007 (85 photos) ... for a change. I am just starting to be a bit sick of East Africa. I needed to see something new and i haven't been to the west of Africa for quiet some times. Lome sounded like a nice place to go so i immediately jumped into a plan in direction of Togo. |
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Lome, Togo
Jun 28, 2006 ... hours later, after getting lost, it is still the most prominent thought in my mind!! I want to write more about Ghana before Togo though. Ghana lost the soccer game yesterday. It was very sad, because anyone who saw it, knows that Ghana was the better ... |
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Togo Bethel
Feb 25, 2009 ... the grand tour of bethel by sister A. the wife of brother A. who visited me in hospital. The well designed Togo bethel, co-ordinates the distribution of spiritual food to two country's and through the HLC maintains Togo's best equipped theater for ... |
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atakpome: good day/rough night
Nov 19, 2009 (41 photos) ... cedi...or like 30 bucks, but it was our activity for the day so we had all decided it was worth the splurge.plus transportation in togo is just expensive in general, so it was actually a reasonable price for a moto. so, we took those all the way for like ... |