📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
ASTOVOT
(Association Togolaise des Volontaires au Travail)
Project : Culture and awareness
The idea of this camp is to highlight the educational, social and artistic dimension of folklore and using it as a means of education for citizenship. So ASTOVOT organizes this cultural project of education as festival. This festival is for us a way to attract a large audience and to provide a space for reflection about citizen education (Environment : deforestation, global warming Â…)
Objective
The festival is about promoting groups that are active in the cultural and artistic local scene while giving them an occasion to perform their arts and at the same time raising awareness about global citizenship subjects (Environment: deforestation, global warming).
💼 What the programme involves
Task to accomplish
The first step: Reflection and awareness around the themes (Discussions-debate, visits and meetings with locals, mobilisation action)
- Visiting the local organizations involved in the safeguard of the environment;
- Entertaining activities for teenagers, such as providing educational tools to encourage the young people to respect and protect the environment in their daily life;
- Raising awareness on the waste disposal.
- Meetings and discussions on all the above mentioned themes (local active members involved in the community development will be invited).
In the second stage the main activity will be the organisation of the festival (place set-up, awareness actions to be taken together with the festival artistsÂ…)
- Arrangement of the show hall
- Establishing information stands
- Meeting the groups taking part in the Festival
- Planning of the event and execution
In addition to the activities to be carried out by the volunteers, folklore groups from the Kloto region will prepare performances based on the themes they choose (Environmental Protection, Conflict and Peace).
Thus, the festival will take into account the staging of the various folk groups and the staging of the group of volunteers. This would be the place of expression and valorization of the Togolese culture through the various themes mentioned above.
NB: The participating groups will be awarded with different prices.
The volunteers can bring didactic tools (posters, handouts, audio/video files) regarding the safeguard of the environment, especially the global warming.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will be accommodated at the ASTOVOT quarters head, in the library. The preparation of the meals and the cleaning will be everybody's task, as the volunteers will be sharing it. There is electricity and a limited access to Internet.
📍 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
Beyond the workcamp hours, it is possible to enjoy the hikes, or meet the hospitable population, organize evenings and trips to visit the nearby villages.
ℹ️ Additional information
participation fees : 200 €