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Hotel Palm Beach Lome

Blvd de La Republic Lome, Togo

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Dying to be mothers

A travel blog entry by faisal_abroad

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... to be. They realize that important role of TBA’s towards the welfare of the children and their mothers. Their aim is to establish localized, community driven emergency response strategy. This means that the community will plan out how they will, for example, organize transportation to the district hospitals, how they will handle referrals, acquire medicine and many other aspects. However the first step is to have trained TBA’s who are able to ...

Last full day in Togo

A travel blog entry by joelmeeker

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... to slow down and be more careful, but probably not. Accidents happen to other people.

We began the Bible study at 18:45 and I again used a PowerPoint presentation to add interest to the interactive study on the subject of why we study the Bible, what the book itself says about why it is important to study it. I broke the members up into two groups and gave them a series of scriptures to discuss among themselves, so they could reflect on what various ...

First full day in Lomé

A travel blog entry by joelmeeker

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... always brightly painted, a laundry/dry cleaners (I’ll take some laundry there tomorrow), a motorcycle shop, a flour merchant with huge sacks in reserve, a makeshift gas station stand with liter bottles on display, street "restaurants" some with tables and chairs, some on the sidewalks consisting merely of a lady with baskets and pots of already-cooked food and a stool you can sit on while you eat. I don’t recommend the latter variety.

When ...

Leaving Kinshasa

A travel blog entry by joelmeeker

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... fee to park inside; too risky to park outside the walls and walk in. Jacob hired a “protocol” a fellow who knows the ins and outs of the airport and would carry the suitcase and guide me through the bureaucratic labyrinth, for a fee. First we went in a door on the right of the terminal and down a corridor to the window where I needed to pay the $50 departure tax. Then we had to go back outside again, and reenter the terminal through a door ...

Kolloquium und Kulturschock

A travel blog entry by carolineghana

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... oder nicht genügend, dann werden sie verprügelt. Auch so ist
der Umgang mit den Menschen dort sehr rau. Eines der Bilder zeigt
auch, wie ein Polizist gerade geschmiert wird.

Direkt hinter der Grenze stolpert der
Togobesucher in die Hauptstadt Lomé. Diese Stadt ist wirklich
wunderschön. Ehemals als Monaco von Westafrika betitelt, ist der
Kontrast zu den Sand- und Staubpisten von Ghana immens. Man sieht
hier eine relativ saubere Stadt. Es gibt keine ...