Develop. Educate. Empower.
Whether we are empowering youth with continuing education, building educational infrastructures, providing small business loans, promoting health and safety, or alleviating the sufferings of rural and urban poor and low-income households, our central focus remains to develop Africa through education, training and empowerment, which we believe will reduce poverty, thereby positively changing the lives of individuals, communities, countries and the continent.
DEVELOP
Developing communities and changing lives together. At DAT we believe that building a strong community starts with local investment in various areas.
EDUCATE
Educating communities and changing lives together. At DAT we believe that education is one of the primary keys to eliminate poverty in Africa.
EMPOWER
Empowering communities and changing lives together. At DAT we believe in providing necessary resources to individuals and communities, with proper training to reach their new growth.
“With the proper development programs through education, training and empowerment, African communities will reach a new level of growth.”
Emmanuel agbovi | Founder
History of Developing Africa Together
In the spring of 2017, Emmanuel and Mary Agbovi were given a unique challenge.
Their pastor gave them – and 275 other volunteers – $100 and simple instructions: multiply it and find a project to invest in outside the church.
With clarity sharpened by lifelong experiences – for Mary, growing up in a nomadic lifestyle in the United States with no formal education, and for Emmanuel, growing up in Togo, West Africa, witnessing the extreme hardship students faced to receive an education – the couple knew this challenge from their pastor was the spark they needed to ignite a lifelong vision.
Three months and a fundraising drive later, that $100 bill became a school in Emmanuel’s homeland of Togo, West Africa, where more than 175 children, previously sitting under a tree and a tarp, now receive their education in a safe structure.
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