EDUCATION

Knowing that education is the backbone of sustainable development of a country, SOS Togo is committed to making the educational system (ES) of Togo one that truly drives development, industrialization, and progress. In order to compete and win in the 21st century, we need a deep reform in this area. Togo needs an ES that can develop civism, initiative, creativity, invention, entrepreneurship, and industrialization. To achieve this goal we SOS Togo is committed to:

• - Build and equip schools in disadvantaged areas.
• - Provide school supplies to disadvantaged children.
• - Advocate for and financially support a deep reform in school curriculums with a great emphasis on science, math, and engineering courses. These courses must be redesigned in a way that they train young Togolese brain to think critically and creatively in order to drive inventions and innovations.
• - Advocate for and financially support the establishment of a new educational system tailored to the real needs for a harmonious development.
• - Equip schools and universities with information technology to stop the further depressing divide in learning of the 21^st
• - Support the program of identification of gifted kids in their early age, and categorization of these kids in their respective area of expertise, and creating conditions for them to develop their talents and gifts.
• - Support program to integrate into the ES real civism to allow the rise of a new generation of patriotic and proud citizens and leaders who truly love their country and respect public goods and affairs.
• - Support youth programs that promote entrepreneurship, creativity and invention.
• - Support programs that promote revalorization of the teaching profession with better criteria of selection, appropriate training, and adequate reward of the educators.