COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Togo
Environment
Social work
Study
Environment
Social work
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Fixed dates
About the project
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
FAGAD is a NGO which works for local development and environment. It supports rural populations and promotes cultural exchange and solidarity.
💼 What the programme involves
Project description:
Project initiated by the university section of FAGAD. It envisages organizing exchanges with the students of the University of Lomé on themes linked to the development of their community and form more than 40 of them to be able to write up a project of community development.
Work to be done:
- 03 days discussion and exchanges with the students of the University of Lomé on climate change and the problems associated with their community
- Training of these students at Adeta:
• In the development of a community project ( many of these students have ideas, but do not know how to formalize them, therefore, teach them how to write up a project )
• In management of a project (how to pilot the project to ensure it is put in place and ensure it lasts)
• In social communication (it is necessary to learn to associate the communities by the different canals for communication).
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers are lodged in dormitories on the site of the work project. Evenings for exchanges and debates are organized on a variety of themes and on the challenges facing the world to – day, such as: the cultural shock, immigration, climate change (rising temperatures ), different peoples and development. Such evenings are chaired by the work project animator.
🍲 Food
Meals are prepared by the volunteers themselves and everyone is expected to participate in the common tasks ( kitchen, washing – up after meals, etc, maintenance of the dormitories and others ).
📍 About the location
Kpélé – Adeta 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 Adeta. There is also electricity and running water.
🎒 Leisure activities
• The Dzanipé Falls with their beautiful waterfalls, the Kpimé Falls, the Danyi Plateau (visit to the Monastery of Dzogbegan and its circular wooden chapel), Mt Kloto (whence it is possible to get a glimpse of Lake Volta in Ghana), the village of KumaKonda and the château Viale, Mt Agou (the highest summit in Togo).
• Possibility to discover also northern Togo (the large towns like Atakpamé, Sokodé and Kara, the Aledjo Fault (the road passes through the rock), the region of Tamberma, the Niamtougou falls…) and the Nangbeto Dam with its hippopotamus pool.
• Artistic activities: learn the techniques of batik, sculpture.
• Cultural activities; percussion (Djembé) and dancing around the fire
• Day with an African family: a day of immersion in the life of an African family organized around the following: animism, installation of a chief in place, traditional marriage, a day in the field.
⚠️ Requirements
Volunteers should arrive with mosquito nets, micro pur for disinfecting water, sheets and blankets ( or a sleeping bag ) sprays against mosquitoes, K – Ways and walking shoes. Mosquito nets treated to repel mosquitoes are available in Lomé at very attractive prices.
🤝 Meeting point
We do ensure that there is a welcome at the International Airport, Général Gnasssimgbé Eyadéma at Lomé. Every volunteer registered on one of our work camps mist inform us well in advance of the start of the work camp the details relative to his arrival ( the date, the time of arrival and the flight number ). On arrival he will find one of the agents of FAGAD responsible for welcoming.
Attention; we advise volunteers to never give the money representing their participation in expenses at the airport, even of the person has a FAGAD notice. The volunteer can invite the person responsible for welcoming to communicate his family name and his first name. In the case where the flight is late or has been annulled, the volunteer is asked to inform us to enable us to make alternative welcoming arrangements. In the case of a late arrival at the airport of the person responsible for welcoming, they can call us from the airport.
ℹ️ Additional information
Participation fee: Expenses linked to participation, welcome and transport towards the work camps amount to 330 Euros per volunteer and per work camp. These expenses cover restaurant expenses and lodging on the work camp. It also allows us to ensure a person at the airport to welcome volunteers as well as provide transport of the volunteer up to the work camp site.
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25/03/2016 → 10/04/2016
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ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–99 years old
Solidarity donation
0.00 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Adeta, Togo
Togo
🌍 Location info
Local currency
West African CFA Franc (XOF / CFA)
Exchange rate
1 XOF = 0.001531 EUR
Rate as of 31/05/2026
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🗣️ Languages spoken
English
French