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While this project has ended, you can still make a gift at https://umfoundation.com/ignite.
Thank you so much for your generous gifts! You can still give to the #OleMiss4Togo project even though our online project has ended. We will still gladly accept donations to our permanent fund. Please visit www.umfoundation.com/olemiss4togo. Thank you!
Please help us send members of the Ole Miss chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) and School of Engineering faculty members to Togo, Africa, to complete the water supply project that will provide clean water to a children’s hospital in the rural village of Akoumape.
Togo is a distressed country in West Africa with a population of approximately 6.7 million people. Around one half of the population lives below the international poverty line. Service to others is part of the DNA of Ole Miss students, faculty, and staff. With your help, we can continue to help transform the lives of our fellow human beings in Togo.
The EWB-Ole Miss team made a long-term commitment in 2012 to work with rural villages in Togo to improve community infrastructure and health care. With four productive trips completed since that time, the EWB-Ole Miss team has built a school that provides a safe setting for dozens of children to benefit from educational opportunities. How rewarding it has been to be so engaged with this community and involved in building an educational facility!
The next step in the team’s commitment to rural Togo is to provide water to a children’s hospital, which is being built by a non-profit organization.
The hospital is almost complete but has no source of water. The job of EWB-Ole Miss is to drill a well, build two water towers, and install a distribution pipe and a public tap stand. For these complicated tasks to be carefully planned, the EWB-Ole Miss team must go to Togo for the planning stages in January 2016, anticipating a deep water well installation in the summer of 2016.
All of these travelers and countless other chapter members have invested time, money and deeply committed efforts to this project through to completion. Faculty members donate all of their travel time without compensation. Participants are passionate about seeing this children's hospital have clean water, which, in turn, will help health-care workers care for sick children.
Give today and help the EWB-Ole Miss team travel to Togo in January 2016! Let’s bring hope and better health to the lives of children by drilling a well and getting clean water to Akoumape, Togo! Every time you turn on your water faucet, please think of giving the gift of clean water to deserving young people!
In addition to your monetary gift, you can also make an impact by becoming an ambassador for our campaign and sharing our message with your family and friends via email and social media. Share project link: ignite.olemiss.edu/olemiss4togo and use #olemiss4togo
The indigenous African language spoken by the Togolese is Ewe. The rural village children of Akoumape, Togo and their grateful parents say "akpe" to you in advance for your generous support to provide clean water to their village. Our entire EWB-Ole Miss team says thank you & Hotty Toddy for making our mission a reality.
Stay up to date with our team's progress and see pictures from our upcoming trip to Togo in January 2016.
Cris Surbeck, csurbeck@olemiss.edu
David Thomas, dmthoma4@go.olemiss.edu
French is the official language in Togo. "Meals" in French is translated "repas." Your $10 gift will cover the expense of one meal for an EWB-Ole Miss team member.
Your $50 gift will cover the expense for renting a passenger van and driver (transport en voiture) for one day for our EWB-Ole Miss team in Togo.
Your gift of $100 will cover the expense of renting the necessary equipment (location d'équipement) for one day for our EWB-Ole Miss team.
Your $800 gift will cover the expense of lodging (hébergement) for one week for three EWB-Ole Miss team members.
Your $1,900 gift will cover the expense of airfare (billets d'avion) for one EWB-Ole Miss team member.
Your $2,450 gift will cover all the expenses for the entire trip (toute la voyage) for one EWB-Ole Miss team member.