Build Home and Bring Christmas to an Orphanage in Africa

1888 Press Release - This is a crowdfunding campaign which aims to assist an orphanage in Togo (West Africa) that is going through a serious housing issue. Our campaign aims to bring hope and stability to the lives of 58 children this holiday season, by building two dormitories and providing a power generator and clean water system. These seemingly simple things would be life changing for these children.

Lome, TOGO (West Africa) - ALAFIA YOUTH (Non-Profit) - A group of students and volunteers from around the world are running a crowdfunding campaign to help a Togolese (West Africa) orphanage build a decent shelter for this Christmas season. Since last October this orphanage of 58 kids have been living without electricity and clean water in a temporary dormitory that is way too small to accommodate them for long. This campaign is trying to raise support from people by offering some very exotic and unique perks such as an ebony pen and a traditional mask carved by a Togolese artist.

The orphanage was created in 2003 in Lomé (capital of Togo) by a brave lady called Vondjogbe Charity. Mama Charity, as she is locally nicknamed, gave up her business career to follow a heart calling and devote all her life to take care of her 58 orphans. They have been in rental houses for eleven years and last July their landlord asked them to move out. Coincidently, at the time, she was also welcoming two new twin babies, Philip and Philippa, who lost their mother during their birth. Things got tough for Mama Charity as renting prices are increasing in Lomé and many landlords would not rent their houses to orphanages.

Facing such desperate need to accommodate the orphans, she strived hard to get from generous contributors a piece of land and some money to build a temporary dormitory. According to an old African saying, whoever sleeps on someone else's mat is sleeping on the bare ground. In other words, after 11 years, it is time for this orphanage to stop renting houses and...