Togo

ASSOCIATION DES JEUNES POUR UN DÉVELOPPEMENT

Association des Jeunes pour un Développement (AJDD) aim to contribute to sustainable development. Their focus is on fighting poverty and homelessness and promoting gender equality, active citizenship, peaceful coexistence, environmental protection, and education.

They organise different cultural, sporting, and educational activities that promote friendship among children, youth, and adults, help integrate homeless people, refugees, and ethnic minorities, and promote human rights, democracy, and peace.

Stock image: Philippe Reymond

ORGANISATION DETAILS

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PARTICIPANTS

Vulnerable children and youth, homeless, unemployed, and socially marginalised people, ethnic minorities, and refugees.

LOCATIONS

Sokode

Country statistics

167 out of 189 in Human Development Index rankings (UNDP, 2019)

$920 Average annual salary per person (World Bank, 2021)

23.8% of children under 5 suffer from chronic malnutrition (W FP, 2020)

Togo is a small country on the Western Coast of Africa with a population of 8.2 million (CIA World Factbook, 2021).

There are high levels of poverty in the country, these are predicted to get worse as the population rises. Poverty disproportionately affects people in rural areas (58.8%) in comparison to those living in urban areas (26.5%).

Covid-19 has halted economic growth as investments in the country declined, it fell to 1.8% in 2020 from 5.5% in 2019 (World Bank, 2021).

More than half of people living in urban areas are living in slums (World Bank, 2018).

According to our partner AJDD (Association des Jeunes pour un Développement) about 100,000 people are homeless in Togo.

Many of these live on the streets in capital city, Lomé. Many are children, teenagers and single mothers with young children (Humanity and Inclusion, 2020).

More than 6,000 people are displaced each year because of natural disasters such as flooding and earthquakes (Internal Displacement, 2019). This particularly affects coastal communities which are seeing water levels rising as a result of climate change (Reuters, 2020).