📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
FAGAD is a NGO which works for local development and environment. It supports rural populations and promotes cultural exchange and solidarity.
💼 What the programme involves
Project description:
This project envisages the construction of a center for the administration of projects for the development of the area. This center will also allow meetings to take place and training for development for the management of a site classed as part of the national heritage. The center will also provide a room for marriages. Also it will be possible to organize tourism on the site of FIATOE, which is full of old remains (vestiges) and cultural items, which led to the classification of it as an element of the national patrimony.
Work to be done :
• Organize the land (elimination of grass, uproot trees….)
• Raise walls (masonry)
• Search for water
• Search for sand
• Search for wood and planks.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers are lodged in dormitories on the site of the work project. Evenings for exchanges and debates are organized on a variety of themes and on the challenges facing the world to – day, such as: the cultural shock, immigration, climate change (rising temperatures), different peoples and development. Such evenings are chaired by the work project animator.
🍲 Food
Meals are prepared by the volunteers themselves and everyone is expected to participate in the common tasks ( kitchen, washing – up after meals, etc, maintenance of the dormitories and others ).
📍 About the location
Kpékpéta is a village of around 2 000 inhabitants. It is situated 30 kms from the town of Adeta, the main center for the Prefecture Kpélé – Adeta: 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 activities
• The Dzanipé Falls with their beautiful waterfalls, 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 other parts of Togo (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
⚠️ Requirements
Volunteers should arrive with mosquito nets, micro pur for disinfecting water, sheets and blankets (or a sleeping bag ) sprays against mosquitoes, K – Ways and walking shoes. Mosquito nets treated to repel mosquitoes are available in Lomé at very attractive prices.
🤝 Meeting point
We do ensure that there is a welcome at the International Airport, Général Gnasssimgbé Eyadéma at Lomé. Every volunteer registered on one of our work camps mist inform us well in advance of the start of the work camp the details relative to his arrival ( the date, the time of arrival and the flight number ). On arrival he will find one of the agents of FAGAD responsible for welcoming.
Attention; we advise volunteers to never give the money representing their participation in expenses at the airport, even of the person has a FAGAD notice. The volunteer can invite the person responsible for welcoming to communicate his family name and his first name. In the case where the flight is late or has been annulled, the volunteer is asked to inform us to enable us to make alternative welcoming arrangements. In the case of a late arrival at the airport of the person responsible for welcoming, they can call us from the airport.
ℹ️ Additional information
Participation fee: Expenses linked to participation, welcome and transport towards the work camps amount to 330 Euros per volunteer and per work camp. These expenses cover restaurant expenses and lodging on the work camp. It also allows us to ensure a person at the airport to welcome volunteers as well as provide transport of the volunteer up to the work camp site.