Last reported, Togo had 198k vehicles.

73% of which are motorbikes. For a country with 8.2 million people, this equates to just over 2% of the population owning their own means of transportation. In a country lacking asphalt on most major and secondary roads, rain presents a significant problem constantly creating potholes and dangerous driving conditions. Thereby making walking equally difficult and time consuming.

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From developing countries to times square, we all have one thing in common: there are 24 hours in a day. 1440 minutes. When caring for children, managing your home and working to provide every minute counts.

 

Your giving ensures that each of our seamstresses have access to personal transportation. In addition to allowing them to be among the 2%, it gives them more of the one thing that is the most valuable – time.

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For example, Jeanette has been a seamstress on our team for 5 years. Her 7 mile walk to work each day usually averaged 1.5 hours. Imagine spending 3 hours of your day walking to and from work, with a baby in tow.

Your giving turns her 3 hour walk into 30 minutes of driving.​

 

Because of our transportation initiative we have been able to bless all of our seamstresses with motorbikes and provide annual maintenance to ensure their continued use. This frees there family from debt but it also grants them the gift of time and safety. Many of our seamstresses have to travel 3,5, 7 miles from their village to work. Before they were walking hours down rural sometimes very dangerous roads with their children. Now their commute is cut to 30 minutes and they are able to safely drop and pick their children up from school.

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Our Transportation Initiative is dedicated to ensuring the safety and well-being of our team members in Togo by providing them with reliable transportation. With a focus on reducing the dangers associated with long commutes on rural roads, our initiative aims to empower our seamstresses and their children, allowing them to travel to work and school with security and ease. Our goal for this lane is to make sure our team motorbikes receive the monthly and yearly maintenance that will keep them safe and reliable. We also want to gift our team with gas stipends as they travel from their homes to the shop.

 

Lastly we have a goal of purchasing 2 motorbike a year for the missionary families in the surrounding villages. We want to be able to assist and bless other amazing individuals serving the Togo community.