IST PREVENTION PROGRAM
Togo
Education
Social work
Education
Social work
Fixed dates
About the project
IST PREVENTION PROGRAM
📝 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:
The youth in rural areas is confronted with serious problems linked not only to primary health care, but also to unwanted pregnancies combined with the sexually transmissible illnesses, including sida. The level of our financial resources is not high, but we must make a modest contribution to try and regulate these scourges which have a major negative impact on the development of our regions, which, far from towns and lacking in contacts, are a little forgotten.
In addition, the schools and colleges are faced with a lack of teachers. By way of this project, we provide assistance to pupils with their homework and by sessions of repeating lessons or other methods of education.
Work to be done:
• Organize sessions of sensibilisation programmed on themes / sketches (theatrical forum) / discussions – debates IST / SIDA and contraception / (distribution of condoms and prospectus),
• Help the teachers at school / organize repeating lessons with pupils at home / help them to do their homework and follow up with them research in the library.
🏠 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 market and a dispensary(a small health center). The dominant activity is agriculture.
🎒 Leisure activities
• the factory producing ciment in the town of Tabligo, the town of Aneho on the road to Benin, whence it is possible to depart for an excursion to Togoville by way of a trip on Lake Togo. 22 kms from Togoville is a pool for sacred crocodiles the site for phosphates. At Lacata a pool for hippopotamus.
• Possibility to discover also northernTogo ( the large towns like Atakpamé, Sokodé and Kara, the Aledjo Fault ( the road passes through the rock ), the region of Tamberma, the Niamtougou falls… ) and the Nangbeto Dam with its hippopotamus pool,
• Artistic activities; learn the techniques of batik and sculpture,
• Cultural activities; percussion ( Djembé ) and dancing around the fire,
• Day with an African family : a day of immersion in the life of an African family organized around the following: animism, installation of a chief in place, traditional marriage, a day in the field.
⚠️ 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: Expenses linked to participation, welcome and transport towards the work camps amount to 330 Euros per volunteer and per work camp. These expenses cover restaurant expenses and lodging on the work camp. It also allows us to ensure a person at the airport to welcome volunteers as well as provide transport of the volunteer up to the work camp site.
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13/09/2016 → 09/10/2016
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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