💼 What the programme involves
Thème :Construction of an agricultural farm with the appropriate technology
FAGAD’s ideais the creation of a farm with the appropriate technology in the area of agricultural production. An agriculture at the same time local and bio;a farm where the major part of the elements entering in the production are of local origin.
Work to be done :
• Organization of the farm;
• Building stables;
• Search for water;
• Provide food for the animals:
• Look after animals:
• Production of natural compost:
• Plantation of ornamental trees and fruit trees;
• Planting medicinal trees;
• Creation of areas with European vegetable products ( plants or cutttings of mint, of strawberries, of raspberries, of vine, of apple and other fruit trees
);
• Harvests;
• Keeping and storing products in appropriate packages.
📍 About the location
The farm « Fuentes « is situated a 5 kms from Danyi Apeyémé, the seat of the Prefecture of Danyi; a large town where you can find a post office, a poice commissariat, a hospital center and a law court. Danyi Apeyémé is around 15 kms from Adeta. The farm has no electricity which explains that any initiative to install solar panels is to be encouraged. -- Others:
Touristic sites to visit ; the ancestral site of Fiatoé, the Dzanipé Falls with their beautiful waterfalls, the Kpioné Falls, the Plateau of Dyani ( visit to the Monastery of Dzogbegan and it’s circular chapel constructed of wood ), Mount Kloto ( whence it is possible to glimpse Lake Volta in Ghana on a clear day ), the village of Kuma Konda together with the château Viale, Mount Agou ( the summit is the highest point in Togo;986 m ),
Possibility of discovering as well the north of Togo ( the large towns like Atakpamé, Sokodé, and Kara, the rock cutting of Alédjo ( the road passes through an enormous rock cutting ), the region of Tamberma, the Naimtougou Falls
) and the Nangbéto Dam with the lake where hippopotamuses live;.
Artistic activities: learn the techniques of batik, sculpture,
Cultural activities: percussion ( Djembé drums ) and dancing around the fire;
A day with a family: a day steeped in the daily life of an African family organized around the following themes: animism, putting the village chief on his throne, traditional marriage, a day in