Togo Children Photo

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Togo Children Photo
Kametonou Togo West Africa

Togo Children diligently helping their mother do the laundry in the river.

There is a small river that creates the border between Ghana and Togo. On the Togo side these children are helping their mothers to do their laundry in the shallows of the river. It was if, they shrunk the children from adult to small size.

While the children are washing clothes, they are often trying to decide if they should go and bath with the major group of children. Fun to watch as they continually jump in and out of the water, trying to be small adults and finish the laundry, yet at the same time be children and go play in the water.

This seems to be a daily ritual, the water is a playground for the children, it is cool, shaded, and a very small set of rapids creates a pleasant place for the life of this village.

The next day the owner of the rooms we rented did my laundry for free, somewhat as a Cadeau to me. I am learning, if I am to get a Cadeau or gift in return, this type of Cadeau is going to be laundry, or something they can give that does not normally cost money.

I was delighted to have my laundry done by a person that can do this better than me, and also know they rinsed it well. Water is always short in supply as they need to carry it from the collection points. There is plenty of water in South Togo, yet the carrying of water make them sticky on the use. They washed my clothes in the stream, thus plenty of water and the rising cycle was done well.

The rip me off prices of laundry in West Africa demands, I normally do my laundry myself. Actually the best way to have you laundry done is to count all your clothes, remember the number, and pay some local to do them, not the hotels if you care about a budget.

Girls will volunteer to do my laundry.

Togo Children Photo

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Becky said on Friday July 18th, 2008 09:10:00 AM

Hi Andy,I'm the manager of the Malaria Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the UK (http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/malaria/). At the moment I'm preparing our annual report (printed, <2000 copies and web-published)and would like to include the photo shown on your blog entitled ‘Togo Children Photo’.Would it be possible to use this photo with your name acknowledged underneath? With kind regards,Becky

Andy HoboTraveler.com said on Friday July 18th, 2008 04:05:00 PM

Yes, you may use the photo, maybe you want the higher pixel photo?You must and need to have under the photo.Andy of HoboTraveler.comExactly as written or add more if you wish, but do not separate the domain name, leave as is.Click on contact to write me directly.

Olson said on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 08:28:26 PM

I am writing a small report for a college class. Could you tell me a little about the Togo government as you saw it? I have read many pages about it and it seems very crazy. Thank you.