🏢 About the local organisation
The local partner is the local branch of FAGAD, the village development committee, the club for children FAGAD. We work with the village for 25 years. This village is home to the National Office FAGAD
💼 What the programme involves
Theme :Education and children’s leisure activities
It covers the following, teaching children:
• How to prepare for their future
• Teach them to read and write
• How to live as a member of society
• Teach them games and sketches as well as assisting them to present themselves in public
• Teach them the notions of hygiene and clearing in up in public places
• Teach them to protect themselves against certain maladies
Target groups:
The volunteer will work with:
The children’s club of FAGAD ( around thirty children between the ages of 6 and 17 years old )
The primary Catholic school of the Sisters ( children between the ages of 6 and 12 years old )
The official school of AdetaKodomé Sisters ( children between the ages of 6 and 12 years old )
The maternal school of Adeta ( children between the ages of 2 and 5 years old)Period : open all the year round
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be accommodated in the home of FAGAD. There is electricity and water. The toilet and shower are a bit modern. in the bedroom there are beds and mattresses. The internet is possible if people pay the credits.
The food is both Togolese and European. All is done together by volunteers. They are often helped by young people from villages
📍 About the location
Location
:Adéta
Kpélé – Adéta is a town of around 15 000 inhabitants. The offices of the Prefecture Kpélé are established here, as well as the headquarters of FAGAD. It is situated on the crossroads Kpalimé – Atakpamé, Notsé – Danyi. There is a Post Office, a police station, and a medical – social center. The nearest hospital is the American Baptist hospital, some 4 kms from Adéta. There is also electricity and running water.
Leisure
Artistic activities
Learn the techniques of batik, sculpture
Cultural Activities
Percussion ( Djembé ) and dancing around the fire
A day with a family ; a day’s immersion with an African family organized around the following themes: animism, putting the village chief in place, traditional marriage, a day in the camp site.
Nearby touristic attractions:
Fuentes Farm circuit ( Adeta….monastries of DanyiDzogbegan and Fuentes Farm
together with the Americahospital at Tsiko)
Kloto circuit ( Mount Kloto, whence it is possible to catch a glimpse of Lake Volta in
Ghana: Kamalo Falls, artisanal centre at Kpalimé, Kpalimé market.)
Circuit AgouWomé( Agou Peak, the highest in Togo, Womé Falls, Kpalimé market.)
Circuit Kpélé ( KpéléLonda Falls or Dzanipé with its beautiful Falls, Tsaviè Altar of
Rest.)
Circuit Toutou – to ( FIATOE site, communal forest of FAO Kpékpéta and Agbomé,
Peul village. )
OTHER POSSIBILITIES :
Possibility to discover also Northern Togo ( large cities like Atakpamé, Sokodé, and Kara, Aledjo Fault ( the road passes through the rock ), Tamberma country, Niamtougou Falls…) and the Nangbeto Dam with the pond for hippopotamus.
⚠️ Requirements
The fees is 330 per month for those who was send but organisations member of CCIVS. other volunteer would pay 430 euros per month
What the volunteer can bring
Children’s games, school items, books and a little financial donations