📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Our local partner ther is the village development committee and the project nursery group with FAO. With them we work for environmental protection, site protection TUTUTO. A cultural heritage site.
💼 What the programme involves
Creation of green villages for ecological tourism.
The objective is to arrange the village of Kpékpéta as a green village. An ecological village where the population has been sensibilised to give an example to other villages in terms of management of the territory.
Work to be done:
Prepare a map for the management of the territory of the village,
Sensibilise the population on what could be ecological tourism,
Mark out the places for streets and the planting of trees on them,
Management of spaces ( creation of green spaces ),
Identification and reforestation of banks on the edge of water,
Identification and reforestation of areas for growing wood for heating.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be accommodated in a house (local not modern) setting available by villagers. A kpékpéta there is no electricity. The toilet and shower are traditional. Some villagers use the solar panels to charge devices like lamps and FAGAD does. Mattresses are provided by FAGAD each volunteer.
Food is Togolese, African, European and often through. What is certain, foods on our sites are appreciated by the volunteers. Everything is done by volunteers themselves. They are often helped by the population.
📍 About the location
Location
Kpékpéta
Kpékpéta is a village of around 2 000 inhabitants. It is situated 30 kms from the town of Adéta, the main center for the Prefecture Kpélé – Adéta: the large town where a Post Office, a bank, a police station and medical – social center are to be found. Kpékpéta has a primary school, a dispensary and a little market which is open every Saturday. The main activity in the area is agriculture.
Leisure
the factory producing ciment in the town of Tabligo, the town of Aneho on the road to Bénin, whence it is possible to depart for an excursion to Togoville by way of a trip on Lake Togo. 22 kms from Togoville is a pool for sacred crocodiles the site for phosphates. At Lacata a pool for hippopotamus.
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
Kpékpéta est entre Gebakui et Kati