🏢 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
construction of a foyer FAGAD
The commune of Adéta does not have a single place where the youth could met
to exchange knowledge, share their leisure activities and their joys. The objective of FAGAD is the creation of a center which could put up seminaries, training sessions, and moments of celebration for the youth.
Work to be done:
Clean up the site;
Make and collection of bricks;
collection of sand ;
build the walls....
🏠 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
Tourist sites to visit; 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 northernTogo ( 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,
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.