Togo Edition
World Clean Water Habit Day leads today's complete edition for Togo.
Daily Edition
Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.
A day for checking the small daily routines that keep water respected, conserved, and safely shared at home and in public life.
National holiday. Togo is one of the only countries on earth where Vodun is officially recognized as a religion, and January 10 is the day the nation celebrates it. In Lomé, priests in white ceremonial cloth pour libations of palm oil and gin onto the earth. Drummers play until their hands blister. Possession trances ripple through crowds of thousands. Practitioners from Benin, Ghana, Brazil, Haiti, and Cuba make pilgrimage here because this stretch of coast is where Vodun was born, and Togo never forgot it.
You encounter the resplendent quetzal and the howler monkey in El Salvador's cloud forests and tropical regions. You observe that Salvadorans typically keep dogs, cats, and chickens as household pets. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.