McGriff also brings opportunities to the women that SHE employs. Twenty seamstresses work full-time at the group’s two factories, and their average salary is 75 percent higher than Togo’s ...

The African Development Bank and the government of Togo have signed financing agreements worth a total of $38.9 million (approximately FCFA 22.44 billion) to support the development of ...

They chased us out of our homes, so we came to Togo." A few months after her arrival, members of the host community informed her about a Community Savings and Credit Association (ACEC). This ...

And so that was when we started looking at creating jobs for these young women.” At the beginning, SHE employed two seamstresses who made uniforms for 65 girls. Today, Style Her Empowered is in 21 ...

Sometimes, a book can have a life-changing impact. For Payton McGriff, that turned out to be true. McGriff was a sophomore at the University of Idaho when she read Half the Sky, which examines the ...

in implementing initiatives aimed at empowering and promoting the inclusion of forcibly displaced women. Fatimata, 32, arrived in Biankouri, northern Togo, in 2023 with her husband and three children.

Empowering girls and elevating women Today, SHE serves girls in Nôtse as well as 20 rural villages in southern Togo, where 69 percent of households live below the poverty line. Girls in these ...