📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Our local partners are the Nadoba conservatory responsible for managing the site, the village development committee (VDC), the club for FAGAD children on the site and the ministry responsible for culture.
💼 What the programme involves
. Theme : Creation of a bio garden to improve life on the site
This project aims to create a bio garden on the side, which will allow in the future the production of vegetables and teach the youth to do gardening where they live. A way of eliminating dietary problems on the site.
Work to be done;
Collect compost, ashes, and organic waste from the village,
Teach how to prepare organic fertilizer.
Initiation to bio agriculture on the banks of the dam,
Sensibilise the parents to the production of vegetables and a bio diet,
Sensibilise the primary school and college pupils to the production and consumption of vegetables, especial bio ones.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers live in the house often made available by the conservatory and the village. There is running water and electricity. WC and the shower relatively modern . FAGAD provide mattresses.
The food is Togolese, African and European. All volunteers attend to tasks and can be assisted by local volunteers and ladies in the village
📍 About the location
Location
Koutammakou, Batammariba country, is 500 square kms and comprises 4 cantons; Nadoba, ( Koutammakou ), Koutougou, Warengo and Agbonté. Nadoba is some 620 lms from Lomé in Northern Togo. The site was classed as an element of the World Patrimony of UNESCO in 2004. Benin is 4 kms from Nadoba.
The Batammariba are farmers and hunters. They live in earth houses built in the form of a castle ( “ château “ ), Tata on the basis of a very special architecture.
.The language spoken by the Batammariba is calle Ditammari: by deformation it has become Tamberma. The principal belief of the Batammariba is animalisme. The fetiches, which they adore and are to be found at the entrance to the Tatas, take diverse forms. According to the form, they can represent simultaneously; their ancestors with whom they are in communication; major exploits of hunters, the members of the family still living; different ceremonies.
In the case of the Batammariba, the living have a very deep link with the dead. In fact, they believe that every living being owes his life to breath of a dead person who wished for him to join him in the next Kingdom. It is possible to say a kind or reincarnation. The rites associated with mourning are linked to a return to life and the secret names of the dead hide a vital energy.
Traditional dances are often associated with these ceremonies.
Leisure
Make a walking excursion to discover the Koutoummakou ; visit tatas and the fetish tree,
Possibility to discover southern Togo: excursion to the Mt Agou ( the highest summit in Togo; 986 m ), the town of Aneho on the road to Benin, whence it is possible to make an excursion to Togoville by way of a boat trip on Lake Togo, one of the largest in Togo, and the town of Togoville. 22 kms from Togoville is the lake of sacred crocodiles and site where phosphate is mined, and at Lacata, a hippopotamus lake.
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
motivated volunteers
ℹ️ Additional information
Nadoba is about 28 km from kanté to the est, republic of Benin