Assumption of training costs for skilled trades New Kekeli Project: Training as an opportunity Training young people, giving them a perspective - that is Kekeli Togo's new project. In this way, we help to reduce poverty by giving young, motivated people the realistic opportunity to earn a living and thus also contribute to the regional economy. 100 000 F CFA, about 150 EUR, is the cost of the three-year handicraft training in Klologo. Village leaders and the village development committee have selected three needy young people whose parents cannot afford the training. Two young women, aged 17 and 21, are now being trained as hairdressers thanks to our donations, and one young man (22) as a welder. A fourth training is already paid for by donations; a young person who wants to learn a trade used in the village and is eligible for the donation is currently being sought - for reasons of parity, we always want to support the same number of women as men. The welding apprenticeship can begin! Michel, the president of our association, recently received this message with a photo: Théo, the future welder for whom we pay the training, needs a bicycle to get to the training, 30 kilometres a day easily! The bicycle, also acquired from Kekeli funds, was now presented to him personally by the honourable village council. On the right, the young man's aunt. 29.09.2020 At the Kekeli project craft training: now a carpenter Kodjovi Gati, 21, will soon start his three-year carpentry apprenticeship, which will end with a skilled worker's certificate. A member of the Kekeli Togo e.V. association has donated the costs for the training and a bicycle for him to ride from Klologo to the training site. To motivate him and, above all, to teach him how to use the tools, the donor has also given him the toolbox shown here; it is partly equipped with new tools, all of which are, of course, operated manually. 02.11.2020 A medical representative for Klologo On December 2, 2020, her training began: Rosaline Afi Amedome, an 18-year-old from Klologo, is going to a top-class state institute to train as a medical assistant. Kekeli Togo e.V. is covering the costs of the three-year diploma course. "We see this as an investment in our girls' project," says Michel Frenzel-Assih, chairman of the association. With the planned girls' project - scheduled to start this spring - Kekeli Togo wants to counteract the high number of early pregnancies in the global South; many teenage girls leave school prematurely because they are pregnant. The path to a professional life - and thus out of the poverty trap - is thus blocked for them. Kekeli Togo wants to provide a girls' meeting place for the approximately 250 middle and high school girls per school year, where they can receive counseling, training and information. The village nurse and midwife will look after the girls; Rosaline Afi will also be a contact person during her studies, but especially afterwards."We bank on information and education, but also on strengthening the girls' self-confidence, and ultimately also on contraception," says Frenzel-Assih. Kekeli Togo is currently looking for donors for the "Girls Project"; the total cost for five years is EUR 15,000. (We have already introduced the local committee for the Girls Project, which runs the girls' meeting place). Rosaline has seven sisters and one brother; she lives in Klologo. The institute she now attends offers diploma and master's courses in business administration and management. It is one of the best public universities in Togo.

The three trainees Afi Julienne Blewoussi, Koffi Theo Agbekponou and Améyo Jeanna Gati.