A couple weeks ago I visited the ADRA staff and projects in Togo, West Africa.
I only met a handful of the 1,600 women benefiting from ADRA Togo’s Women’s Empowerment Project; but during my short visit I was exposed to ADRA’s community life-skills classes, the women’s committees started or strengthened, the women’s home visit counseling conducted, and the training programs for ADRA workers and local facilitators. And I saw women participating in our desperately needed income generating activities, like making soap and tye-dying cloth.

At our office in the capital city of Lome, I visited our weekly AIDS Prevention training session—16 ADRA workers and 16 women village facilitators attended. There I also learned of plans for another ADRA AIDS project of targeted compassion and education to 21,000 people in 40 villages.

Everywhere I went there were lives empowered and changed by the work of ADRA. The best news is, ADRA Togo is just one of 125 nations in which ADRA has a presence. It represents just 1/125th of what ADRA is doing each day around the globe. Multiply the thousands of hope-filled stories of the women in Togo by 125 and you can rejoice with me in what this ministry does each day….Changing the World, One Life at a Time.

Sincerely,

Charles Sandefur
President