Togolese Hope

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One Frenchman’s ambitious vision, one country’s determined dream, one worlds’ prerogative liberality – Togo, Africa is a country joining its third worldly struggle but she has found a beginning optimism in their campaigning activist and founder of Togo’s charity PDH – Antoine Dzakas, even though his vision is one of a saviour Togo can’t be saved from that alone.

Togo – like its mothering land – is suffering.

Instead of preach charity values to a modern crowd to who seemed to have developed a somewhat delusionary immunity to Africa’s ‘Poverty Problem’ maybe we would best respond to encouragement?
Today we have the regard of apparition to any media stories of poverty ‘parade’. Yes, because the media is and has been since the first Live Aid movement, parading poverty in the news. We read see and hear about the impoverished crisis in all our national and international newspapers, television, radio and word-of-mouth broadcasts every day. Surely the ratio would work out to something of for every impoverished individual in the world half a dozen know or are becoming knowledgeable about it, and yet – in this progressive modern day, bubble-protected, moral led society – there is a strong chance that not one from that half a dozen are doing more than shacking a head of pity and tossing the story out.

To become, to give, to save more than that we must open our eyes, our hearts, and our minds to adapt our alter egos, our mannerisms of thinking of relating such stories to helpless ‘pointless to act’ news.

One of those stories – a true, yet humble one – is that of PDH (Promotion et Développement Humain) or the Promotion and Human Development. “It is just as full of hope as it is suffering” – http://www.pdh-togo.org/html/english/welcome.html. It is one of the charities that both justifies and fights the inhumanly challenging but unexplainably worthwhile humanitarian work.

Trusting that my literate brevity of illustrating the Togolese dearth the millions are suffering or representing the philanthropic influence this Frenchman is giving might actually intensify the means of charitable voluntary hands and heroic praise that they deserve.

There is a belief – a superstitious one or maybe it could be a philosophical one, but it’s a belief, one that reveals the human mind, spirit and awe to its true capabilities; ‘If you don’t have love in your heart, you don’t have a story – and without that you got nothing.’
Call it an honour, a world-wide public service or a gesture of goodwill – help the Togolese live the story of surviving awe and living wonder they deserve.

True, something of this kind of speak of aid is so much easier said than it is done, so – with the many, many ways in which our aid can be given and achieved open yourself up to the possibilities, achievements, inspirations, challenges and experiences you will have with the Togolese – not only will you be freeing their lives…..

…..Walk in the footsteps of where our first ancestors walked, talked and evolved to better people on African soil and walk/work towards a new day, a new era, and a new evolution – a new life.