About us

Togo Union UK started as a simple association created in 1982 by the then Ambassador of Togo to UK, the late Ayivi Ajavon, with the help of a small group of Togolese nationals living in the UK. It was to help Togolese nationals living in the UK network and get closer, support one another in good as well as bad times. It was for celebrating births, supporting in times of bereavement as well as gathering during Christmas and Easter holidays.

By 2008, it grew into a Registered Charity Organisation with the purpose to raise funds, however small, to help schoolchildren in rural villages across Togo. ‘Rural Togo’ means those places so difficult to reach and often forgotten by the Authorities. Those places where parents have to contribute themselves to ensure their children get education.

Since 2010, Togo Union UK has organised various donation events in rural areas across Togo. Those donations include grants, school equipment, water filtering kits among other things. During the Covid pandemic, Togo Union donated masks and food.

Togo Union UK has sometimes benefited from various government funding schemes, but the main source of funding comes from donations, annual dinner dance event organised with the help of volunteers from the Togolese community and friends of the organisation.

Volunteers

Togo Union UK is managed and supported by volunteers mainly from our community of Togolese living in the UK. Please contact us and help improve the education of children in rural Togo.