Bassoguina, aged 10, lives in Ténéga, a village just outside  Niamtougou, a town in the Kara Region of Togo.

You can find out more about Ténéga by reading this transcript from the Le Togo d'un village à l'autre web site, where Bamana Kadira Christophe speaks about his village.

Bassoguina wakes up at 5.30am. She sleeps on the floor, under a piece of cloth. First thing in the morning, the family prays. Bassoguina and her family are devout Baptists and her father is a part-time minister.

Bassoguina  feeding the chickens. The chicken coop is a woven basket.

When prayer is over, Bassoguina cleans the bedroom and courtyard of the house. Then she lets the chickens out of their coop, and feeds them, before preparing breakfast for the family.

Breakfast is pâtes (a porridge made of maize flour) with sauce. Today the sauce is made of beans. Almost every meal is pâtes with sauce, but the sauce varies.

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