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  • Africa's Two Female Presidents Join Together to Help Women

    In an article published in IPS News on May 9, 2012, Travis Lupick reports that Africa’s two female presidents have joined forces to improve the conditions for women across the African continent. On April 29th in Monrovia, two years into what the African Union (AU) has declared the "Women’s Decade", Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Malawian President Joyce Banda pledged to work together to “empower women.”

  • A Water Partnership Between Ghana and Togo

    In an article published April 12, 2012, on GhanaWeb it is reported that Ghana and Togo have signed an agreement, moving forward plans to coordinate a water implementation program. This is the "Sogakope-Lome Trans-Boundary Water Supply project which dates back to the 1970s."

  • Take Our Daughters to Work Program Expands in Togo

    Since the late 1990s, Peace Corps Volunteers and their Togolese colleagues have been organizing Take Our Daughters to Work (TODTW) activities in Togo to empower middle and high school girls to continue their education and become leaders in their communities. 2011 marked the first year that TODTW activities were organized in all of Togo’s 5 regions—160 girls from 64 villages took part in 7 camps, which were carried out between March and August of 2011.