📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
ASTOVOT
(Association Togolaise des Volontaires au Travail)
Now adays, a very small part of the Togolese population knows the first gestures that save in an accident. However, a victim correctly cared for before the rescue arrives has an additional 10% chance of survival.
During the two weeks, the volunteers will be trained by a specialist and will apply their skills to contribute to the learning of first aid gestures.
💼 What the programme involves
Main objective
The objective is to contribute to the awareness and training of the local communities on the actions that save to know how to react in the face of an accident of the life or the work to give a maximum chance of survival to the victims.
Specifics objectives
-Train volunteers for better participation;
- Make local communities the first link in the relief chain by teaching them the right reflexes;
- Sensitive the population to the gestures that save through demonstrations;
- Make up an rescue teams so that they can be present in the different events of the communities.
The work to be done
Training will be given to volunteers by the trainers of the National Service of Occupational and Sports Medicine (the Occupational Health and Safety Committee).
Then, volunteers together with the team of the Red Cross of the village, will organize sensitization sessions on the importance of learning first aid "simple gestures that save".
Volunteers as a result of their training in first aid on saving gestures, will train the youth people of the village as peer educators. These peer educators will be the relay of the chain of rescue that will be implanted in the village.
This will ensure that after the volunteers leave at the end of the project, these peer educators will multiply their actions in the community for the sustainability of the project.
To mark the end of the project, the volunteers will organize a presentation in the village to show the differents aspects of the relief gestures that were the subject of the project.
Outline of the training will be: "Protect-Examine-Making Alert or Alert and Rescue"
The gestures will consist in making: the release of a victim, putting in a waiting position (sitting position, half-sitting, lateral position of safety), burn management, stopping a haemorrhage, airway obstruction)
🏠 Accommodation on site
Housing conditions are generally rudimentary. You will be lodged near the site of the camp. The whole group will be housed in the same house, the rooms will be shared, provide small inflatable mattresses or a small floor mat (no bed), sleeping bag, mosquito net ... The kitchen will be organized by the volunteers. Drinking water available.
NB: internet access and limited electricity
📍 About the location
Located 120 km west from Lomé, the town of Kpalimé is a dream location for the nature lovers and the hikers looking for beautiful mountain landscapes and tropical flora. You can cool off in the many natural waterfalls. Kpalimé is also the home of the Togolese handicraft, as many artists and artisans moved here.
With about 101,088 inhabitants, Kpalimé is a touristic town in the Plateaux region. Capital of the Kloto district, Kpalimé offers many infrastructures such as: hospitals, post office, town hall, police station, banks etc. In addition to these public and administrative offices, you will find art shops, shopping centres, bars, restaurants and discos which will keep you busy. The great market of Kpalimé (the biggest one in town) is open on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays with a huge offer of different products: you will find many tropical fruits, any kind of vegetables and African clothes, etc. Indeed, Kpalimé is a city, which welcomes a lot of visitors. Thus, you will surely enjoy your stay during the workcamp activities.
Free time activities
Apart from the times of working, you can enjoy walks, meetings with the particularly welcoming poeple, organize evenings and excursions to visit the surrounding villages.
ℹ️ Additional information
participation fees : 200 €