📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Our local partner for this project is Christophe Decor Art. He is assisted by our local branch of Adéta. Christophe Decor Art is an establishment that manufactures works of art not far from the headquarters of FAGAD.
💼 What the programme involves
Theme: Artistic work camp (initiation to artistic activities)
The objective of this project is to initiate and reinforce the capacities of volunteers wishing to be trained in the field of art.
Indeed, they will work together with trainers, artists and other local volunteers in the various activities planned.
It is also an opportunity to help these women to have an entrepreneurial spirit by supporting them.
Work to do1:
ï·Learn the techniques of BATIK (printing on canvas sheets, T – shirts, and loincloths (pagnes…)Â ;
ï·Painting (decorative pictures, canvases….);
ï·Engraving calabashes;
ï·Luminous signs ;
ï·Sculpture on wood and ceramic ;
ï·Making traditional necklaces of pearls and of baked clay;
Work to do2:
• Learn traditional pottery techniques;
• Research materials (clay, wood, grass and others);
• Pile and make clay usable;
• Make pots, jars, plates and others;
• Make small gifts with children for sale;
• Manufacture of traditional bead and terracotta necklaces.
• Other artists working in other areas can be visited as well
• Day or stay in the village of potters (this will depend on the number of volunteers)
NB
-Volunteer can do the number 1, 2 or both. The camp leader would focus in general motivation and would help everyone for satisfaction.
-At the end of the construction, all the objects will be exposed and resold to the eager ones. The funds collected will be used to support the projects of the children of the FAGAD group, environmental projects and also cleaning up the area.
🏠 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:
Kpélé-Adéta is a town of some 15 000 inhabitants. It is the principal settlement of the Kpélé Préfecture and the headquarters of FAGAD are based there. It is situated on the cross roads Kpalimé – Atakpamé , Notsé – Danyi. There is a post office, and police commissariat and a medical – social center.T he nearest hospital is the American Baptiste hospital, 4 kms from Adeta.
Leisure
Cultural activities :
Percussion (Djembé) and dance around the fire
Day with a family; a day of immersion in the life of an African family organized around the following themes: animism, the election of the village chief, traditional marriage, or a day in the field.
Close by touristic attractions :
- Fuentes Farm circuit ( Adeta…. Monasteries of DanyiDzogbegan and Fuentes Farm together with the American Hospital at Tsiko ) ;
-Kloto circuit ( Mount Kloto whence it is possible to glimpse Lake Volta in Ghana,Kamalo falls, artisanal center of Kpalimé, Kpalimé market ) ;
-Agou and Womé circuit ( Summit of Mount Agoué – 986 m; Womé falls, Kpalimé
market ) ;
-Kpelé circuit (KpéléKonda falls or Dzanipé with its beautiful waterfalls, Tsaviè altar of rest ) ;
-Touto – to circuit ( FIATOE site, communal forests for 4 villages and Agbomé Puelh
house ).
OTHER POSSIBILITIES :
Also the possibility of discovering the North of Togo ( the large towns such as Atakpamé, Sokodé and Kara, the Aledjo fault ( the road passes through a cutting in an enormous rock ), Tamberma country, Niamtougou falls…) and the Nangbeto Barrage with the hippopotamus lake, the elephants at Tchandé
⚠️ Requirements
hope to see soon motivated and fexible volunteers .NB: if you are not from partener association or from organisation member of CCIVS, you'll pay 70 euros more for registration fees and solidarity funds.
Criminal record for individual without coming from partner association
ℹ️ Additional information
Kpélé Adéta is on the national road N ° 5 and it is at 150 km of lomé the capital of Togo. It is distant om the town of kpalimé of 28 km.
