Local Project

We are in a rainy period at Lome, and it is usual to have floods in many districts. A recent article from RFI depicts the situation (kindly find the article at https://www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20230423-togo-des-quartiers-de-lom%C3%A9-inond%C3%A9s-et-de-nombreuses-familles-sans-logement), where local habitants need to take refuge while forsaking their home as well as their goods and letting them be destroyed by the flood. Having the water come to the adult waist is common in some places. And sometimes, several retention basins didn’t withstand the shock, overflowing and causing flooding in many neighborhoods.

Paradoxically, there are places in the country where it is usual to not have water from the faucet for a long period of time during the dryness period. People need to walk for kilometers to find a well or other water source. Difficult access to clean water sources have a negative impact on people’s health, especially children.

Other than people’s lives, extreme weather is disrupting other sectors, such as the economy. For example, agriculture in Togo depends very much on the period of the year and the weather. So it is easy for farmers to incur loss when the climate becomes extreme and unpredictable.