From Our Friends at Alaffia Skin Care

The Wedge received the following email from Olowo-n'djo Tchala this past summer:

I am deeply pleased to inform you that we successfully loaded three 40 foot shipping containers of bicycles last Wednesday for our Bicycles for Education project. These containers will sail from Seattle this week and arrive in Togo by the 9th of September. I will be arriving in Togo around the same time to help clear the bicycles through the laborious customs procedures, transport them to Sokodé and distribute them to disadvantaged students—mainly girls—in our rural communities.

My goal for this note is to express my deepest thanks to all of you who have either directly or indirectly participated in making this project possible.

Through this project, I have gained hope and confidence that through cooperation, we can reduce gender inequality and the immoral poverty in our communities in Africa. This project does more than just providing bicycles; it gives Togolese students a new life and opportunity by helping them stay in school.

Again, please accept my greatest appreciation for all of your support. I will bring updates upon my return in early October.

Have a peaceful summer.
Olowo-n'djo Tchala