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Queen Palace Lome

81, Rue Apounoukpa, B.P. 3449 Lome, Togo

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Dying to be mothers

A travel blog entry by faisal_abroad

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... the health needs of the 93,400 residents of Akatsi and the greater need of mothers to be. Therefore involvement of the TBA’s is crucial but also risky.

The practice of TBA’s without training can have mixed results. Many still use traditional means to deliver a babies, such as feeding the mother herb concoctions before pregnancies. There is no regulation or standards set out by the TBA’s and as a result there have been many horrendous ...

Last full day in Togo

A travel blog entry by joelmeeker

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... in North America and Europe, but in many places in the world they pose significant health risks, transmitting debilitating diseases like Malaria, Yellow Fever, Dengue Fever and more.

Then I continued working until 17:00 when Pierre Kloutsé came to pick me up. We drove thought the heavy rush hour traffic to Guy's home for the evening Bible Study. The sidewalks on the main streets were full of people selling all sorts of things, all trying to early their ...

First full day in Lomé

A travel blog entry by joelmeeker

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... it out of the wok-like pan onto the ground as well. It looked quite alarming from where I was standing, but she kept her calm and tried to manage the fire. A co-worker ran out of the restaurant with a huge parasol which he held up high over the fire to keep the rain from worsening the situation. After a few minutes they had the fire under control.

The rain continued off and all on morning. The depressions in the sandy street filled up with water ...

Leaving Kinshasa

A travel blog entry by joelmeeker

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... of it. Nights are not very safe in and around Kinshasa, the road to the airport goes through several hot neighborhoods that are hostile to the central government and which "go off" at different time. There are also robberies of various kinds including stopping cars on the road. A van gives a heavier impression. It’s either a taxi, in which case the passengers are probably not going to have much on them, or if it isn’t a taxi it could be a ...

Kolloquium und Kulturschock

A travel blog entry by carolineghana

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Mein Togotrip
Togo war super. :) So viel schon einmal
vorweg. Trotz meines miserablen Französisch hab ich es tatsächlich
geschafft mich dort verständlich zu machen. Sogar vor Ministern.

Mein Trip begann sehr früh am Dienstag
Morgen. Da ich um sechs bei meinem Chef zu erscheinen hatte, und ein
guter Soldat ja immer etwas eher da ist, war aufstehen für 4:30Uhr
angesetzt. Die kalte Dusche an diesem Morgen war, glaube ich, dass
schrecklichste was ich bis ...