SCAW Blog: Togo, 2025: October 24

Fun on our final day!

Imagine our delight when we drove up to the cheers of the children on the final day in Togo. When they saw the truck carrying the mattresses and bedkits they could not contain their cheers and excitement!

The mattresses were quickly unloaded while the 2 principals called the names of the children who then assembled in a classroom, waiting anxiously for us to set up the photo site.

In the meantime, 2 of the SCAW team members showed the waiting 125 children what exactly they would be receiving. Their cheers could be heard in the next village! 👏

500 children will rest peacefully tonight and all thanks to the wonderful SCAW donors!

Team Togo, 2025

Association Developpement Enfance et Social Togo 🇹🇬 + SCAW 🇨🇦

SCAW Blog: Togo, 2025: October, 23

   Kindness

                          The light of kindness

                           is always in you.

                           It's like a superpower

                           that gives you the ability

                           to find your purpose,

                           to change life,

                           and to make the world a better place. 

Kindness was found everywhere today:

- in our awesome volunteers

- in our new SCAW children

- in their parents and grandparents

- in their teachers and principal

- in our bus driver, and

- in our SCAW team.

Thank you to our donors for enabling us to spread kindness.

Team Togo, 2025

Association Developpement Enfance et Social Togo 🇹🇬 + SCAW 🇨🇦

SCAW Blog: Togo, 2025: October 22

Time, Talent and Treasure

Sleeping Children is back in Togo after several years absence, thanks to ADES – Togo*, a new charitable organization specifically set up to partner with SCAW and resume helping Togo children living in poverty – and all of it because of the leadership of brothers, Messenh and Dosseh.

Followers of SCAW in Togo might remember these two from the ‘three musketeers’, who, as young men with their cousin, helped every SCAW team, every day. Well, they are now in their 30s, have families and wish to give back this time with their time, talent and treasure. They formed ADES – Togo with about 25 young women and men (21 volunteers were at the first distribution!) and it is a joy to see them bring joy to the distributions as they help organize, play and interact with the children, families and us, the SCAW volunteers.

Three of the four on our team have been to previous Togo distributions and see the ‘three musketeers’ in all the ADES – Togo members. High praise!

Their logo represents it all - for the children they (and we) are helping be happy, joyful, playful, safe and cared for.

Team Togo, 2025

Association Developpement Enfance et Social Togo 🇹🇬 + SCAW 🇨🇦

*Association Developpement Enfance et Social

SCAW Blog: Togo, 2025: October 21, 2025

“ I am good, I am great” 🎼 🎼 🎼

That was the song that the children sang to us in English at the completion of a successful first day distribution in Togo! We are thrilled to be back in Togo with the ADES - Togo (Association Developpement Enfance et Social) group after a gap of a few years. And they didn’t disappoint - 125 children experiencing poverty received the gift of a bedkit to ensure a good night’s sleep!

We also were able to visit 2 homes of children in the village of Bolougan who received a bedkit today. Here we witnessed a co-op where they made clay pots and bricks. They had a 300 meter deep well which supplied the village with water, saving them having to walk several miles to get water from the river!

The first house was made of clay and housed a family of 8 which included a young girl. The second house was of a single mother and her 12 year old boy and what we noticed right away were sayings on the wall in chalk. The young boy was a big fan of soccer and we knew that because of what was written.

We are off to a great start and thankful for the donors and the smiles that we received today!

Team Togo, 2025

Association Developpement Enfance et Social Togo 🇹🇬 + SCAW 🇨🇦