📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Our local partner is the local branch of FAGAD at Esse. It is helped by the village development committee. We work with them for years. With our one of our French partners, we have built a recreational center with library and the creation of income generating activities.
💼 What the programme involves
. Theme : Construction/ Education and children’s leisure activities
The objective is to offer a framework of school education adequate and decent for the population of this locality by way of the construction of school buildings for secondary education.
The objective of this work camp is also to lead children to discover others with their cultures and modes of life, to prepare them for a new school year and offer them ways of relaxing and expressing other than those they usually have.
Work to be done :
Clean up the site, collect sand and bricks, seek water, construction of walls….;
Taking care of children in several domains, organizing a program of games, artisanal activities, sketches, singing, dancing, and support for school studies together with guided visits;
Pulling up plants, creating limits, digging, putting in posts, putting plants in the soil, watering.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be accommodated in a house that people will put their facilities. Esse is electrified but often that not. The village was the scourge of forrage own. The population is very friendly. we work there over 10 years.
FAGAD provide mattresses to all volunteers.
Everyone will take care of household chores and cooking. The village youth volunteers often help. The food is both African and European. The village produces beaucaup africa Djin. Drink in moderation
📍 About the location
The population of the village according to census returns amounts to around 2 700 inhabitants. There are items of infrastructure such as: two primary schools, a college for secondary education, a FAGAD library, a market and a dispensary ( a small health center ). The dominant activity is agriculture. The village has an electric generator group, but it does not operate every day. Therefore it is necessary to encourage the installation of another system, notably a system of solar panels.
Leisure
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 America hospital 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, communcal 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
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 170 euros more for registration fees and solidarity funds.
Criminal record for individual without coming from partener association
ℹ️ Additional information
Esse Zogbedzi is between Tsevié and tabligbo and not far from ahepé