Many people have never heard of Togo.

It’s a tiny country in West Africa on the Ivory Coast with a population of just 8 million people that finally won its independence in 1960.

The main language in Togo is French, the main religion is Voodoo and 82% of the rural population lives under the global poverty line making it one of the world’s poorest countries.

It is almost entirely dependent on humanitarian foreign aid.

One out of every eight children in Togo do not live to see their fifth birthday. And many face disease, malnutrition, violence and exploitation at the hands of corrupt labor forces and human trafficking. Many children do not go to school as their parents cannot afford it.