Donation Policy
How we receive a donation, what we do with it, what we owe you in return, and the donations we do not accept.
Last updated: 19 September 2026
1. How to give
By mobile money from within Togo, by bank transfer from Togo or from abroad, or in kind. The exact details are on the Donate page. Online card payment is not open today: when it is, it will appear on that same page, and no other channel will be announced anywhere else.
2. What donations pay for
The association's work: food and end-of-year parcels, school supplies, the journeys that reach the furthest villages, and the costs that make those possible. A donation given for a particular campaign is used for that campaign. If a campaign raises more than it needs, the surplus goes to the nearest equivalent work, and we say so publicly rather than keeping it quietly.
3. Receipts and acknowledgements
Every identifiable donation is acknowledged. If you need a formal receipt for your own accounts or your organisation's, ask us and we will issue it in the name you give. An anonymous gift stays anonymous; we do not try to find out who sent it.
4. Gifts in kind
School supplies, clothes, non-perishable food: write to us before sending anything. A gift in kind that does not match a real need costs the association as much in transport and storage as it brings. We will tell you what is useful, in what quantity, and how to get it to us.
5. The donations we decline
We decline a donation whose origin is unclear, one carrying a condition contrary to our principles or to the interests of the children we work with, one that would commit the association to a political or religious position, and one that would require us to do something we do not know how to do. A refusal is explained to the person who offered.
6. Your rights as a donor
To know who we are and what we do with your gift. To get an answer to your questions. To ask that your name is never mentioned. To ask not to be approached again, and to have that respected the first time. To report a practice that looks wrong to you, including ours, and to get an answer.
A question about this policy?
Write to us: we answer donors, volunteers, families and partners. A policy nobody can question is not worth much.