From Togo’s Liason to ILAD’s Leader: Brenda’s Story
Brenda Holland, ILAD’s CEO, went from a church planter working in Togo to leading an international development organization. This interview tells her story.
Kathy: From Poverty to Profit
“I am overwhelmed by the work of ILAD. The way they work with us, it really pleases me. It gives me such joy. I don’t know how to describe it. I don’t know how to say ‘thank you’. The work is great. It has brought a lot of benefits to my life. Now I am […]
Rural Togo Development Program
Imagine a world where poverty is a temporary obstacle, not a life sentence. You can bring hope to Awa and her children living in absolute poverty. Investing as little as $25 per month will empower a brighter future for one family through education and new farming techniques. How many families will you empower?
Togo Business Development Brings Clean Water to Rural Togo
The first of Togo BDC completed the three phases in the spring of 2022. From this inaugural class, businesses were created in cocoa & cocoa powder production, mushroom farming, legal counseling & assistance services, medicinal products and well drilling. The Well Drilling Business, known as Forages sans Frontiers (Wells without Borders) is a prime example […]
Papa Noa: Seeing is Believing
Papa Noa is a patriarch of sorts. He isn’t sure how old he is, but remembers when big trees were merely saplings. He is respected in Kpokede, the village where he was born and raised and has lived his whole life. For most of his adult life, Noa farmed corn using the techniques of his […]
Togo AgroCredit
The Togo AgroCredit Program moves rural farmers from Surviving to Thriving! Most farmers in Togo are subsistence farmers. This means they consume what they grow, or sell their crops to buy the minimum essentials required to survive. There is no profit, and there is no end to poverty. But, ILAD’s Togo Development Project has changed […]
Togo Business Development
Your generous gift provides much more than one-time help — it acts as a long-term investment in the life of a budding entrepreneur as they are equipped to start and grow a profitable business of their own. Here’s how a BDC works: Upon acceptance into the program, students work through a business curriculum suited to their […]
Secondary School Initiative
Build local school houses so children can continue education in their home communities under guidance and supervision of their loving families instead of quitting or moving away – becoming susceptible to abuse.
West African Libraries
Our team envisions the favorable transformation of an entire language community on the West African savanna – transformation in health, economics, and education.
The Sahara Project
ILAD is involved in early-stage project planning with an under resourced language community residing in Northwest Africa. This community of people is largely surrounded by the Sahara Desert and has few development initiatives relative to the five million speaker population. Over the several years, ILAD has worked with local stakeholders to develop writing system conventions […]