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In the summer of 2007, six Virginia Tech students participated in an international volunteer program which they designed and carried through.
The program:
Located in: Lome, Togo
Duration: June 4th - July 30th, 2007.
Objectives: Build a computer training center, learn processes associated
with micro-finance institutions through the NGO, HELP Africa.
Accomplishments:
- Participated in micro-finance, NGO organizational structure, and French classes.
- Established a small computer training center for learning basic computer skills and Microsoft Office.
- Gather surveying information for building a center for retirees.
- Participated in sensitizing events to recruit borrowers of micro-loans.
- Established a system of classification for a HELP Africa "library" of 200 books.
Assiyeye-Agoe, Togo. Outside of downtown Lome, near where the
participants
lived.
Near the main port of Lome. Foreign companies ship old stock
down to the port, where merchants buy the stock, and resell
items to buyers from Togo, Benin, and Ghana.
A group of children gathered outside during one of HELP Africa's sensitizing activities.
Computer
dedication ceremony outside of the HELP Africa office in
Assiyeye-Agoe.
A village near Kara, a city sitting in the top third of Togo, geographically speaking.
Scene from a traditional wrestling match; part of an old ceremony showing
young men's strength, native to Kara.
Republic of Togo's President, Monsieur Faure GNASSINGBE.
Inside the HELP Africa office.
Beach
near downtown Lome.
WE HELP Africa Participants
Binioube Aleyao . Mala Kumar . Meredith Pavlick . Nathan Warren . Katy Holt . Jessica Wilson