📝 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
The volunteers will be housed in a house provided by the villagers. A local house and not modern. No electricity. The NGO Fagad provides mattresses to all volunteers. Some villagers use solar plates to recharge their devices. The showers and toilets are traditional. They have clean water.
The food is always international. We have Togolese dishes, African and European dishes. Everyone is invited to participate in housework and meal preparation. Volunteers are often helped by the local population. Our meals are always appreciated by volunteers
📍 About the location
Location : Essé-Zogbédji
The population of this village is some 2 700 inhabitants. The following infrastructure items are to be found there like: two primary schools, a college, a market and dispensary ( a little health center ). The dominant activity is agriculture.
Leisure
Touristic sites to visit : factory producing cement at Tabligo, the town of Aneho on the way to Bénin whence it is possible make an excursion to Togoville by way of a trip on Lake Togo, one of the largest in Togo and a visit to Togoville. 22 kms from Togoville is the lake of sacred crocodiles and the site of phosphates. At Lacata there is a lake of hippopotamus. Possibility of discovering as well the north of Togo ( the large towns like Atakpamé, Sokodé, and Kara, the rock cutting of Alédjo ( the road passes through a cutting in an enormous rock ), the region of Tamberma, the Naimtougou Falls…) and the Nangbéto Dam with the lake where hippopotamuses live;. Cultural activities: percussion ( Djembé drums ) and dancing around the fire; A day with a family: a day steeped in the daily life of an African family organized around the following themes: animism, putting the village chief on his throne, traditional marriage, a day in the fields.
⚠️ Requirements
Waitting motivated and flexible volunteers . NB: if you are not from organisation , member of CCIVS, you'll pay 100 euros more
ℹ️ Additional information
Esse Zogbedzi is not far from Tabligbo, the neary town