📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Our partners are members of the Fuentes farm. A group of disadvantaged people who want to unite their efforts for development through agriculture. We have university students who want to deepen and share connsaissances
💼 What the programme involves
Women's right to land, community forest management with income-generating activities
This project aims to promote gender equity in the field of land; allow women to benefit from the land and exploit it for their autonomy and participate in the development of their municipality. It is also a commitment of women to participate in the protection of the environment through sustainable agriculture and by protecting and promoting the community forest.
• •Debates on women's right to use land for empowerment
• •Animation (awareness-raising on the good management of land, forests and water)
• •Exhibitions and sales (food products plus breasts)
• •Maintenance of old reforested areas
• •Reforestation and livestock
• •Product processing
• •Debates on the status of women here and there,
• Sanitation activities in the village and make the river clean and protected.
🏠 Accommodation on site
volunteers will sleep in the bedrooms of the farm. Everybody would have bed provide . You’ll have males room and ladies room. Every Room have shower and toilet . Solar power energy for electricity: light and to charge mobile. The internet is possible if people pay the credits.
Food will be African and European. Everyone will participate. Now , most of the alimentation would come from the farm or from neighbors farms. Fresh and bio food They are often helped by young people from villages
📍 About the location
Location:
Danyi keteme is a village of about 1103 inhabitants. It is located in the canton of Kakpa and a few kilometers from Danyi Apéyéyémé (capital of the prefecture of Danyi). There is a primary and middle school. The villagers rather take advantage of the infrastructures (hospital, town hall, police, gendarmerie, post office .....) of Apéyéyémé.
Economically, almost all (70%) of the population live mainly from agriculture, particularly cash crops (coffee and cocoa) and food products (maize, cassava, taro, plantain, etc.).
Apart from agriculture, which is the main activity, people engage in other activities such as trade, crafts and livestock. The latter is not fully developed due to ecological constraints (rugged reliefs, forests)
leisure:
•Visit to Dzogbegan Monastery and Golden Eyes
•Possibility to discover other sites in the south of Togo: excursion on Mount Agou (the highest peak in Togo: 986m), the city of Aného on the road to Benin from where you can go on an excursion to Togoville by a walk on Lake Togo, one of the largest in Togo, and the city of Togoville is a pond for sacred crocodiles and the phosphate site, in Lacata a pond for hippos.
•To the north:
•Visit to Fazao and Pya Park; discovery of the UNESCO World Heritage Site in Nadoba
•Cultural activities: percussion (Djembe) and dancing around the fire
•Family day: immersion day in an African family organized around the following themes: animism, the induction of a chef, traditional wedding, day in the field.
⚠️ 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 70 euros more for registration fees and solidarity funds.
Criminal record for individual without coming from partener association
ℹ️ Additional information
Ferme Fuentes is 5 km far from Danyi Apéyéyémé, ask to go SETIVI KOPE when you are at Apéyéyémé and the road would be find before the village of Dzogbegan, where monastery
