📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Togolese Association of Volunteers at Work (ASTOVOT) was founded in 1957 with the name «VAT» (Volontaires au Travail – Volunteers at Work). Nowadays, the association has became an apolitical ONG for International voluntary work, community education and development done for and by young people. Officially approved by the Togolese Government in 2002, ASTOVOT made it its mission to improve the citizens’ life conditions supporting their blossoming and their welfare through social and cultural activities, for example in terms of environment conservation or awareness regarding health issues. Pictured this situation, ASTOVOT is engaged to support the people’s and ideas’ flow through International and intercultural exchanges in order to arouse the mutual comprehension and the peace promotion.
💼 What the programme involves
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
Accommodation
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.
⚠️ Requirements
It would be great is volunteer have skill in First help. Volunteers can bring material for first-aid training such as antiseptic gels, compresses, splints ...