📝 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:Promotion and protection of the element of the World Patrimony
This project targets the promotion and the preservation of the art and culture of the Batammariba in space and in time through the following elements; social – cultural, touristic, and artistic elements special to these people. And allow the population to live well on the site with the projects based on durable development.
Work to be done :
Animation ( stories and guessing games, singing and traditional dances,
concerts of music of Tamberma inspiration, theatre, literary competition
tamari, games, sports, leisure activities );
Exhibition and sale ( artisanal products; pottery, basket - work, jewelry in grass and in stone, sculpture );
Conferences and debates ( classification of the site: advantages and problems: the Tata; history and sociology of the Tamberma; contributions and perspectives social cultural and economic of the tamari people in the development of Togo );
Maintenance of ancient replanted woodlands;
Creationof seedbeds and replanting trees;
Improvement of the water barrage;
Activities for improving the site of the market on the side of the water barrage.
🏠 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
Location and leisure
📍 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. Their traditioinal dances are often associated with these ceremonies.
Leisure
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.
Nearby touristic attractions:
Make a walking excursion to discover Koutammakou ; visit the Tatas and Fetiche Tree;
Visit the Sarakawa Animal Park;
Visit Benin.
OTHER POSSIBILITIES ;
Possibility to discover southern Togo : excursion to Mt Agou ( the highest peak in Togo ( 986 m ), Mt Kloto, the town of Aneho on the road to Benin, whence it is possible to make an excursion to Togoville by way of trip on Lake Togo, one of the largest in Togo, and Togoville, whose history gives the name of Togo to the country.
⚠️ Requirements
hope to see soon motivated and fexible volunteers .NB: if you are not from partener association or from organisation member of CCIVS, you'll pay 170 euros more for registration fees and solidarity funds.
Criminal record for individual without coming from partner association
ℹ️ Additional information
Nadoba is between Kandé ( Togo ) and Boukoumbé ( Benin )