📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Our local partners are the Nadoba conservatory responsible for managing the site, the village development committee (VDC), the club for FAGAD children on the site and the ministry responsible for culture.
💼 What the programme involves
. Theme : Creation of a bio garden to provide a better life on the site
This project targets the creation a bio garden on this site, which will allow the production of vegetables and teach the youth to create a garden at their home. A way of eliminating the problems linked to food products on the site.
Work to be done :
Collect manure, ashes and organic waste from the village;
Teach how to make organic fertilizer;
Initiation to bio agriculture on the banks of a water barrage;
Sensibilise parents to the production of vegetables and bio foodstuffs;
Sensibilise pupils in primary and secondary education to the production and the consumption of vegetables, especially bio.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers live in the house often made available by the conservatory and the village. There is running water and electricity. WC and the shower relatively modern . FAGAD provide mattresses.
The food is Togolese, African and European. All volunteers attend to tasks and can be assisted by local volunteers and ladies in the village
📍 About the location
Koutammakou,Batammariba country, is 500 square kms and comprises 4 cantons; Nadoba, ( Koutammakou ), Koutougou, Warengo and Agbonté. Nadoba is some 620 lms from Lomé in Northern Togo. The site was classed as an element of the World Patrimony of UNESCO in 2004. Benin is 4 kms from Nadoba.
The Batammariba are farmers and hunters. They live in earth houses built in the form of a castle ( “ château “ ), Tata on the basis of a very special architecture.
.The language spoken by the Batammariba is calle Ditammari: by deformation it has become Tamberma. The principal belief of the Batammariba is animalisme. The fetiches, which they adore and are to be found at the entrance to the Tatas, take diverse forms. According to the form, they can represent simultaneously; their ancestors with whom they are in communication; major exploits of hunters, the members of the family still living; different ceremonies.
In the case of the Batammariba, the living have a very deep link with the dead.In fact, they believe that every living being owes his life to breath of a dead person who wished for him to join him in the next Kingdom. It is possible to say a kind or reincarnation. The rites associated with mourning are linked to a return to life and the secret names of the dead hide a vital energy. Their traditioinal dances are often associated with these ceremonies.
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:
Make a walking excursion to discover Koutammakou ; visit the Tatas and Fetiche Tree;
Visit the Sarakawa Animal Park;
Visit Benin.
OTHER POSSIBILITIES ;
Possibility to discover southern Togo : excursion to Mt Agou ( the highest peak in Togo ( 986 m ), Mt Kloto, the town of Aneho on the road to Benin, whence it is possible to make an excursion to Togoville by way of trip on Lake Togo, one of the largest in Togo, and Togoville, whose history gives the name of Togo to the country.
⚠️ 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
Nadoba is between Kandé and Boukoumbé