Togo:
Solidarity Support For The Mere Teresa Centre
Kamp Kodu
ASTO 03
Başlangıç - Bitiş Tarihi
08.07.2024 /
28.07.2024
Toplam Kontenjan
12
Boş Kontenjan
6
6
Yaş
18 - 75
Ekstra Ücret
€220.00
Kamp Temaları
SOCIMANU
Organizasyon
Astovoct
Kuruluş
The NGO Association Togolaise des Volontaires au Travail (ASTOVOT) has more than 60 years of experience in international voluntary service. Each year, it welcomes many volunteers from all over the world on short, medium and long term volunteer projects (3 weeks to 12 months) in Togo. These projects allow the national volunteers (about 200) to work hand in hand with the international volunteers and to create a real intercultural exchange throughout the year. ASTOVOT is a member of the Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service (CCIVSUNESCO) and of the Network of Africa Voluntary Organizations (NAVO), and is in partnership with several volunteer organizations in Europe, Asia, the United States, Canada and Africa. Its projects focus on community development through the promotion of education and citizenship, health, social, environmental protection and intercultural learning, renovation and construction of socio-community infrastructures.
İş Tanımı
The «Mother Teresa of Calcutta» Reception House of Kpalimé, is one of the local partners with which ASTOVOT leads projects of a socio-sanitary nature to the benefit of dozens of patients of this center. The patients welcomed by the Sisters of this center are mostly in extreme poverty or are abandoned, so without a family to take care of them. Often these people have chronic diseases or are disabled. This summer, ASTOVOT launches an international project that will allow volunteers to bring their compassion and love to the sick and vulnerable people by participating in various activities that contribute to the improvement of their physical health, and their development.
OBJECTIVES?
-Assist centre staff in their day-to-day tasks to alleviate their workload, and foster a warm atmosphere through facilitation with residents and workers;
-Learn and share other realities, especially in the management of people with disabilities and how society responds to the needs of vulnerable people;
TASKS FOR VOLUNTEERS:
Volunteers take part in the centre’s activities. These are many and varied.
-Maintain the centre’s green space (gardening, sharecropping, sweeping…);
Maintenance of dormitories;
-Participate in housework: preparing and distributing meals to residents, cleaning dormitories, washing dishes;
-Organize games and educational activities for the benefit of residents and patients;
-Assist caregivers in the management of patients at the centre: patient treatment
Konaklama ve Yemek
Accommodation is generally basic, simple and specific to the project location. On site, volunteers are accommodated in groups of three or four people per room. The number of people per room depends on how the volunteers themselves organise the group. In some places, volunteers can use dry toilets and showers without water inside. This means that volunteers will have to fetch water from a fountain or well. The association provides volunteers with plastic or foam mats. Volunteers who have sleeping bags can bring them with them if possible. Access to drinking water on site.
During the work camp, the volunteers will cook their own meals. An internal organisation will create groups that will alternate to carry out the various domestic tasks domestic tasks, including cooking. The food products used for cooking are imported, local and organic. The diet of each volunteer will be taken into taken into account when preparing meals. Volunteers will have access to tropical fruit such as bananas, oranges, pineapples, mangoes, avocados, papayas, etc. Along side the main activities of the work camp, other activities are organised, such as discovery walks, hikes, festive outings and cultural encounters. These activities enable the volunteers to come into contact with the local population and to discover Togolese culture.
Konum ve Serbest Zaman
Kpalimé is about an hour and a half's drive from Lomé and is set in a beautiful natural environment. Located in south-west Togo, the area surrounding the town is lush and fertile, encircled by thickly wooded hills, deep valleys and small farming villages. Kpalimé is also the country's most important craft centre, home to a large number of artists and craftsmen: woodcarvers, batikeur, potters, weavers, calabash-makers, etc. The many "nature" walks and hikes take you along the paths to discover the daily life of the local people, who live mainly from agriculture.
Notlar
The NGO ASTOVOT, like all associations in Togo, receives no subsidy from the Togolese government. It is the volunteers' participation fees that enable ASTOVOT to finance its projects. The cost of participation in volunteer work camps is €220 per person for 2 to 3 weeks. This contribution covers: accommodation costs; food; accompaniment of the group; administrative costs; purchase of materials and equipment for the project, and other steps involved in setting up volunteers on the project site. The funds contributed by the volunteers are divided as follows: 3/4 for the organisation of project activities and 1/4 for the administrative management of ASTOVOT.
The languages of the project are French and then English. However, we recommend that volunteers who are not French-speaking have a basic knowledge of French before they arrive, as the official language of Togo is French. The vast majority of local volunteers and local communities have a very poor level of English.
Konuşulan Diller
French
En Yakın Terminal
There is a member of our organisation who is in charge of welcoming volunteers at Lomé airport. He will take care of your accommodation in Lomé.
- The price of a taxi between the airport and the bus station or the hotel varies between 6000 and 10000 FCFA (between 9 and 15 €) ,
- Transportation is by bush taxi or a bus that takes you to Kpalimé. The ASTOVOT headquarters is the meeting place for the volunteers and also the starting point for the workcamp.
The distance between Lomé-Kpalimé is 121 km and the durationis 1h 45 to 2h drive. The price of a taxi between Lomé and Kpalimé is 3000 FCFA at the parking places (4,7€). But there are often surcharges. We advise volunteers to buy two places so as not to be too tight in the car.
