📝 Detailed information
🏢 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 / Education and leisure activities for children
The objective of the work camp is ;
a. Allow the commune of Adéta, and in particular the youth, to have a place at their disposition where they can meet to exchange knowledge, share their leisure activities and their joys. For FAGAD, it is a question of creating a center which can provide accommodation for seminaries, educational sessions, meetings and moments of celebration happy events.
b. Lead the children to discover others persons with cultures and modes of living, to offer them the method to express themselves other than those which they have habitually, and liberate the parents for a few hours.
Work to be done:
Clean up the site, collect sand and bricks, search for water and build the walls….
Supervise the children in several areas and organize a programme of games, artisanal activities…
🏠 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.
⚠️ Requirements
motivated volunteers
ℹ️ Additional information
Adéta is 28 km from Kpalimé Road N.5