HISTORY OF TOGO
Togo is a sovereign state of the Togolese Republic ofWest Africa It's population is estimated in 2020 at about 8.6 million inhabitants for a density of 152 inhab./km2.
Among the smallest of the continental African states, Togo covers 56,785 km2, stretching about 700 km from north to south with a width not exceeding 150 km, bounded to the north by theBurkina Faso, to the south by the Gulf of Guinea, to the east by Benin, and to the west by Ghana. Togo has a great diversity of landscapes: a sandy coast lined with coconut trees in the south, hills, green valleys and small mountains in the center of the country, arid plains and large savannas planted with baobabs in the North.
HISTORY OF ECHOPPE
In 1990, ECHOPPE started the first program of small loans program in Africa. It was in Togo, in the city of Lomé. To date, more than 200,000 women have benefited from these small loans* and social support to escape poverty. Echoppe Togo, which took over from ECHOPPE in 2006, is today one of the primary microfinance institutions in Togo. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of ECHOPPE in 2020, Muhammad YUNUS, founder of the Grameen bank and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize had hoped to join us. Unfortunately, because of COVID, this was postponed for a later date. ( For more information, visit our site www.echoppe.org)
Information: see the article on Muhammad Yunus
(*) -The credits are granted to women without guarantee, without deposit or any request for guarantee.