📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
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💼 What the programme involves
The 'Soliva Library' is a community library in Kpalimé with around 10.000 books. It aims to promote reading and transfer of knowledge.
Main Activities
SOLIVIA LIBRARY project aims to act as a center of documentation and research particularly for students, but also for the population of Kpalimé in general. Support to old and new members and help with the exchange of documents.
Volunteer tasks
The project offers several and varied activities to volunteer:
- arranging the books that been used the day before,
- hiring of manuals
- Registration of new documents,
- Book consulting on the spot (Watching)
- Reception of new readers and establishing of new readers tickets
- Exchange of manuals
- Reception and registration of new readers
- Assisting readers in the choice of the books
- Book consulting on the spot and supervision of the readers
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteer will be living with a host family that will provide board and lodging.
📍 About the location
Project 'SOLIVA LIBRARY PROJECT' is located at Kpalimé about 0.5 Km of the head office of the partner organisation. Kpalime is the fourth city of Togo with a population about 100.000 inhabitants. It is located in north-west of Lome the capital city about 120 km. It is located in the outskirts of plateaux region and surrounded in the south with Kpadape hills, in the east with mount Agou (986 m) and in the north west with mount kloto.
Kpalime is one of the most beautiful cities of Togo with a nice landscape offered by Atakora range of mountains, waterfalls and mount Agou the highest point in Togo.
The city gets reputation from its green cultural setting with cool climate and its many craftsmen and artists who work there.
The temperature varies between 19°C and 32°C. Besides those natural advantages, poverty is not overlooked. It is a place where cash-crops such as coffee, cocoa are produced, but because of the fall of the world costs, the agricultural sector is degrading and many famers turn to craftsmen and traders.
Kpalime City also keeps some architectural vestiges of German colonial period
ℹ️ Additional information
Participation : 4 semaines à 16 semaines. Frais supplémentaires : 350 € pour 4 semaines, 50 € pour chaque semaine additionnelle. Le projet est ouvert toute l'année, la date d'arrivée est libre.