Health Care for Togo
Health: Education of Hygiene and Disease Prevention in Togo
We have built a clinic in Agou, it is a region located in the south of the capital of Lome Togo about 74 miles away. By beginning with the three major risk factors of the area; Health Care, Education and Clean Water, we are able to help peoples physical situation better.
The cost of the building includes transfer of the money fees from the US, equipment , labor fees, and accessories. All were bought in Togo.
The clinic is not functional yet because of the lack of electricity , lab equipment, and medications so you will still see pictures of us performing medical treatment under tents. Hopefully it will be opened by 2018.
Soccer is chosen because it is a very attractive sport/game in Togo and becomes one way to involve children, young, and old individuals to participate in community activities: There are 15 different teams with 24 members per team that compete each year and only 11 people play at the time for each team. Each team is responsible to perform community activities such as planting trees to preserve forests and maintaining their environment by collectively organizing cleaning activities. Our next program is to start building community restrooms which do not exist. You cannot improve the health without maintaining a clean environment. LWDF uses this gathering to explain the importance of children education, hygiene, and prevention of diseases..... There were more than 3000 spectators who view the match on the final days. The tournament last 5 months. The number of spectators during the tournament is less around 500 except for the final game where more than 3000 people watch the game.
Health Care Information
Caring for Togo's Health
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LWDF’s ongoing relief and compassion efforts have not gone unrecognized by the Togolese government and other philanthropists. Through our working relationships, a philanthropist donated a plot of land to LWDF in 2013 That is 300 hectares (741 acres) and the Togo government donated a land that amounts to 4 hectares (9.8 acres) of land for the clinic that we built in 2016. With the land secure, we are now able to help this community of people to form a plan to allow them to prosper from their own work. Many people in West Africa would not be able to afford land and maintain it on their own, but with LWDF they can now be part of the cooperatives that they will own as a collective, working towards a brighter future. Cooperatives are proving to be the strongest model for third world communities to become more sufficient. LWDF’s goal to partner you, the donor, with projects that would allow the community to become completely self-sufficient over time. It is human nature to want to work to provide for ones family and create a better life, and the people of Togo are no different. The tools and training LWDF provides through your donations will insure that we can stop putting a Band-Aid on the issue of poverty and instability in this region. Working with us means you are creating a plan that can be duplicated with a functioning infrastructure to move entire communities out of poverty and into sustainability.
UPDATE: This is the clinic in Agou as of October 2017 and it now has solar power installed and up and running.
Health:What does it look like to volunteer in Agou, Togo?
From July 13 to July 23, 2016 in the region of Agou at the clinic a team lead by Dr. Folly : 3 physicians ( Dr. Folly, Dr. Usman both from Tulsa, and Dr. Serevia from New Jersey) 4 nurses ( Mrs. Carter, Amos Adessokan, Tony, Kelly), a pharmacist ( Dr. Ekpoh ), a pharmacy tech ( Jamie Orr ), mental therapist ( Mrs. Gena Orr), Volunteers from USA ( New York: Mrs Dome Tete , Mrs. Colete Doku , Cannada : Mr. Joel Afovia, Germany: Mr. Clement Ahiatrogah, Max and Catherine Bockel, Bernard Welz )
The medications are bought from USA from Blessing International located in Tulsa for $4000. Medications to treat blood pressures, cholesterol, antibiotics, anti-inflammatory , eye drops, eye glasses ( 400 eye glasses donated by an NGO called Lions Eye Glass Recycle Center from Texas. LWDF purchased 200 reading glasses for $200 from Walmart in Tulsa ), normal saline, and wound dressing equipment, all for free to the community. The whole mission lasted 6 days and travel times were 4 days in total. Blessing international is an NGO that sell medical supplies to other NGO for mission. We brought with us a focometer to measure the eye for appropriate eye glasses.
UPDATE: OCTOBER 2017 Volunteers can go to Togo and work in the clinics in Lome or Agou anytime they like. Listed to the right is the facility volunteers stay in when they are in Togo.
Go directly to our volunteer application fill it out and push send. Kristen Carter, R.N. will receive your application and she will be in contact with you.
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Salle d'attente
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Comptabilité et caisse
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Bureau
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Repos
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Circulation
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Prélèvement et analyse
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Accouchement
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Sanitaires
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Consultation
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Salle d'accueil
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Terrasse
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Rampe