{"id":1688,"date":"2015-06-26T09:51:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T08:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/new\/ie\/news\/rice-business-boosts-income-for-togo-women\/"},"modified":"2016-12-21T14:44:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T14:44:43","slug":"rice-business-boosts-income-for-togo-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/rice-business-boosts-income-for-togo-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice business boosts income for Togo women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sanwogou Lalle lives in Tonte village in the remote and poor far north of Togo in West Africa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A rice processor and a member of a women\u2019s enterprise group supported by Gorta-Self Help Africa, Sanwogou and the 18 other members of the group buy \u2018raw\u2019 brown rice that they de-husk and<a href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/06\/Toog-Rice.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3268 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/06\/Toog-Rice.jpg\" alt=\"Toog-Rice\" width=\"435\" height=\"671\" \/><\/a> mill into white rice, which they sell at a premium in the nearby regional capital, Dapaong.<\/p>\n<p>Aged 38 and a mother of five, Sanwogou says that the income she earns from rice processing enables her to supplement the money her family earns on an eight-acre farm in the village.<br \/>\nThe group received training and support with their business, together with pots and other equipment to help them to parboil the rice.<\/p>\n<p>A brick shed for storage and concrete stand where they can dry the rice in the sunshine have also been constructed. The Tonte women\u2019s group buy from farmers in the locality who have been trained as rice growers, and when local supplies are scarce from the markets in Dapaong.<\/p>\n<p>They can buy a bag of brown rice for the equivalent of 50 cents and can sell the same quantity for more than double that sum. &#8220;We try to buy as much as we can at harvest time when the price is cheap, and then sell it at different times of the year when the demand is higher, and the price we can earn is better,&#8221; she explains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never went to school, but my four older children are all attending,\u201d Sanwogou says. \u201cMy son wants to be a doctor. Another one says he would like to be a Minister. \u201cI pray that they can achieve their goals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With your support Gorta-Self Help Africa is assisting thousands of poor women with small-scale rural enterprise, to supplement the income of households who struggle to grow or earn enough from farming to support their families.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1687\" src=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/06\/Tonte600.jpg\" alt=\"Tonte600\" width=\"827\" height=\"488\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanwogou Lalle lives in Tonte village in the remote and poor far north of Togo in West Africa.  A rice processor and a member of a women\u2019s enterprise group supported by Self Help Africa, Sanwogou and 18 of her neighbours have banded together to improve their chances of earning a better income.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/rice-business-boosts-income-for-togo-women\/\"> Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686,637,680],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rice business boosts income for Togo women - Self Help Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Discover how by joining together as group, women in Togo are able to raise their farming income and better feed their families and provide an education for their children.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/rice-business-boosts-income-for-togo-women\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rice business boosts income for Togo women\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Discover how by joining together as group, women in Togo are able to raise their farming income and better feed their families and provide an education for their children.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/rice-business-boosts-income-for-togo-women\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Self Help Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SelfHelpAfrica\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-06-26T08:51:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-12-21T14:44:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/06\/Togo-rice-women-image.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"872\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"551\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Self Help Africa\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@selfhelpafrica\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@selfhelpafrica\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Self Help Africa\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/rice-business-boosts-income-for-togo-women\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/rice-business-boosts-income-for-togo-women\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Self Help Africa\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/#\/schema\/person\/6eab0d895e1f38327e58c354b36cb226\"},\"headline\":\"Rice business boosts income for Togo women\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-06-26T08:51:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-12-21T14:44:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/rice-business-boosts-income-for-togo-women\/\"},\"wordCount\":320,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/rice-business-boosts-income-for-togo-women\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/06\/Togo-rice-women-image.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Enterprise Development\",\"News\",\"West Africa\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/rice-business-boosts-income-for-togo-women\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/rice-business-boosts-income-for-togo-women\/\",\"name\":\"Rice business boosts income for Togo women - 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