IMPROVEMENT IN THE LIVING CONDITIONS OF THE POPULATION OF ESSE
Togo
Environment
Social work
Study
Environment
Social work
+1
Permanent
About the project
IMPROVEMENT IN THE LIVING CONDITIONS OF THE POPULATION OF ESSE
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
FAGAD is a NGO which works for local development and environment. It supports rural populations and promotes cultural exchange and solidarity.
💼 What the programme involves
Project Description:
Our association through this programme wants to attempt to bring a comfortable support to a village which we would say lives a little in a forgotten world. Our programme in this village is centered on the education of the children and the population to provide them with a better future. We have provided a library with the help of our partner ENOUMAMA of France. It remains in order to make the utilization of this library more efficient and above all develop the AGR (activities generating revenue) to enable the library self – financing. We envisage the creation of a botanic garden associated with raising livestock where the persons coming will inform themselves on the conditions of life and exchange ideas with the locals with a view to helping them to improve these elements
Work to be done:
• Sensibilization of the schools in favor of reading
• Assist in the management of the library
• Assist the librarian to develop a good management framework for the center
• Aid in the realization of a programme of creation of activities capable of generating revenues to make the center self - financing
• Participate in the work involved in the creation of a botanic garden
• Participate in the creation of a farm to raise livestock
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers are lodged in dormitories on the site of the work project. Evenings for exchanges and debates are organized on a variety of themes and on the challenges facing the world to – day, such as: the cultural shock, immigration, climate change (rising temperatures ), different peoples and development. Such evenings are chaired by the work project animator.
🍲 Food
Meals are prepared by the volunteers themselves and everyone is expected to participate in the common tasks ( kitchen, washing – up after meals, etc, maintenance of the dormitories and others ).
📍 About the location
The population of the village according to census returns amounts to around 2 700 inhabitants. There are items of infrastructure such as: two primary schools, a college for secondary education, a FAGAD library, a market and a dispensary ( a small health center ). The dominant activity is agriculture. The village has an electric generator group, but it does not operate every day. Therefore it is necessary to encourage the installation of another system, notably a system of solar panels.
🎒 Leisure activities
• Fuentes Farm circuit (Adeta….monastries of DanyiDzogbegan and Fuentes Farm together with the Americahospital at Tsiko)
• Kloto circuit (Mount Kloto, whence it is possible to catch a glimpse of Lake Volta in Ghana: Kamalo Falls, artisanal centre at Kpalimé, Kpalimé market.)
• Circuit AgouWomé( Agou Peak, the highest in Togo, Womé Falls, Kpalimé market.)
• Circuit Kpélé (KpéléLonda Falls or Dzanipé with its beautiful Falls, Tsaviè Altar of Rest.)
• Circuit Toutou – to (FIATOE site, communal forest of FAO Kpékpéta and Agbomé, Peul village.)
• Possibility to discover also Northern Togo (large cities like Atakpamé, Sokodé, and Kara, Aledjo Fault (the road passes through the rock), Tamberma country, Niamtougou Falls…) and the Nangbeto Dam with the pond for hippopotamus.
• Artistic activities: learn the techniques of batik, sculpture.
• Cultural activities: Percussion (Djembé) and dancing around the fire
• A day with a family ; a day’s immersion with an African family organized around the following themes: animism, putting the village chief in place, traditional marriage, a day in the camp site
⚠️ Requirements
Volunteers should arrive with mosquito nets, micro pur for disinfecting water, sheets and blankets ( or a sleeping bag ) sprays against mosquitoes, K – Ways and walking shoes. Mosquito nets treated to repel mosquitoes are available in Lomé at very attractive prices.
🤝 Meeting point
We do ensure that there is a welcome at the International Airport, Général Gnasssimgbé Eyadéma at Lomé. Every volunteer registered on one of our work camps mist inform us well in advance of the start of the work camp the details relative to his arrival ( the date, the time of arrival and the flight number ). On arrival he will find one of the agents of FAGAD responsible for welcoming.
Attention; we advise volunteers to never give the money representing their participation in expenses at the airport, even of the person has a FAGAD notice. The volunteer can invite the person responsible for welcoming to communicate his family name and his first name. In the case where the flight is late or has been annulled, the volunteer is asked to inform us to enable us to make alternative welcoming arrangements. In the case of a late arrival at the airport of the person responsible for welcoming, they can call us from the airport.
ℹ️ Additional information
Participation fee: The charge for a stay is 330 Euros for the thirty one days: this is on the basis of 11 Euros daily (with a reduction equivalent to the daily charge if the month has only 30 days ).
Basic expenses; 100 Euros not reimbursable and to be paid for all the months of the stay immediately the day of arrival. It covers the preparation of the project, welcome on arrival, integration to the local culture, integration to projects, homologue, support funds for the projects and all that is necessary for its coordination.
Direct expenses: 230 Euros, covering the costs of the stay, catering charges and certain transfers or movement.
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FAGAD
03/03/2016 → 31/12/2016
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ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–99 years old
Solidarity donation
0.00 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Essé Zogbedji, Togo
Togo
🌍 Location info
Local currency
West African CFA Franc (XOF / CFA)
Exchange rate
1 XOF = 0.001531 EUR
Rate as of 31/05/2026
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🗣️ Languages spoken
English
French