INFORMATIONS ON THE PROJECTS AND THE PLACES

“Together we can do more for local development”.

ASTOVOT has an NGO status exists since 1957 and works during summer camps with about 90 foreign volunteers and during the year since 2005 as a long term volunteers host with 20 volunteers. The organization has also a network of local volunteers.
The leading staff of ASTOVOT (15 people) and the local active members more than 200 people can lead you in a good family.
Since 1990, we’re working without any financial support for our programme.
The participation fees that you pay on arrival serve to finance the project, your food and accommodation and at least the support of the association.
 We want to tell you that our goal is to create solidarity between people by exchange.
We do not receive any public subsidies by the Togolese state or anybody.
We must also remember that your participation fee and our member’s fees serve to finance: the meetings of the administrative counsel, the functioning of the national office, the motivation of only one the Programme co-coordinator , the Assistant co-coordinator, our office keeping woman and all the expenses of Togolese volunteers related to the work of the organization, the management of the international work sites, the projects, the international relations, the expenses of equipment and of service (telephone, fax, post, rent, …), our rare presence on international meetings of voluntary institutions.

For our plan of action, we want to promote local development and reinforcing our capacity building.
As regard of our Plan of Action (POA) 2009-2012, ASTOVOT wants to be really present with marginalized local communities on the one hand, promote and strengthen his active members on other hand.
For that reason, ASTOVOT need support/accompaniment if you want that our goals give us good outcome.
We’ll also need your help and sponsoring.
ASTOVOT has great deal of desire to expand his projects in marginalized area in Plateaux Region and everywhere which the needs are.
Let’s say “Together we can do more in local communities”.
Please: we are kindly advising all our volunteers that we have many projects to run in the Plateaux Region: Kloto, Agou, Dayes, Amou, Akata, Haho, Wawa, Ogou, Est-Mono.

L-MTVASTO 1  BEING A PART OF ASTOVOT STAFF IN ASTOVOT OFFICE

Task description for a general office support in ASTOVOT 2009

A Long Term Volunteer is needed for Association Togolaise des Volontaires au Travail-ASTOVOT The office is based in Kpalimé, Togo and a staff team of about 3 who are working there. The working language is French or English. Applicants can come from French or English speaking countries.

The period of service will be between 1st December 2008 and 31st December 2009. The volunteer will work under the supervision of the Programme Coordinator who will give assistance to the volunteer.

The Work
* The routine administration of the organisation;
* Everyday communication  with local and expatriate volunteers;
* Strengthen ASTOVOT by fund raising;
* Any other administrative tasks on the request of the Programme coordinator;
* Additionally, for the time left, we try to add an extra dimension to the administrative work in finding new tasks, which are giving the volunteer a learning experience in a new area of work: e.g. helping to organise seminars, writing a grant application, etc. The exact tasks which can be agreed on depend on the interests and experience of the volunteers and on the actual needs and projects planned by the ASTOVOT for that period;

Essential skills:
* Interest in voluntarism and in the work we do;
* Able to work independently and to work in a team;
* Social skills and being able to integrate in a multicultural team;
* Very good level of English or French speaking and writing;
* Min. 20 years old;
* Able to work with MSWord, Excel and in general not being afraid of computers;
* Legally able to serve for a period of one year as a volunteer in Togo;

Desired Skills
* Being able to work on websites;
* Experience in office work;

Conditions of Service
* An interesting multinational working environment;
* Possibilities to learn about local language;
* Accommodation is provided by us. This means a room of your own in a house, where in most cases bathroom, kitchen, and living room would be shared with the other inhabitants of the house. A bike is provided for every volunteer;
* 40 hours/working week;
* 14 days Holiday/term;

L-MTVASTO 2
For this type of project, the volunteer can work according to his choices in four (4) different projects listed below.

L-MTVASTO 2.1: SOCIO EDUCATIVE ANIMATION WITH CHILDREN IN KINDERGARTEN
   
L-MTVASTO 2.2: SOCIO EDUCATIVE ANIMATION WITH MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENT IN ENVOL CENTRE

This Long term plan is initiated by ASTOVOT in partnership with ENVOL seek of volunteers to palliate at the lack of teachers in the mental handicapped school in Togo
The mental handicapped children are often in unpleasant situation in our society and are passed for charge or curs for their families
The goal of the organisation of ENVOL is to help the handicapped child to integrate his society by sending him to school and giving him professional training according to his qualifications ENVOL tries to get for the child better conditions which can help him to lead himself as fine as possible
But in Togo, the are serious lack of teachers in the nine handicapped canters
It is important to take actions for the good education and training of those children in order to secure them the best future.
Everybody who recognized the particularity of those children and devoted for their case can join this plan.
This program is an extension of the last summer ones in the way to keep the children in good condition during the holiday.

L-MTVASTO 2.3: SOCIO EDUCATIVE ANIMATION WITH CHILDREN IN VIVENDA CENTRE (DEAF-MUTE CENTRE)

The centre of the deaf-mute VIVENDA of Kpalimé is created in 2003 to come support to the deaf-mute children and teenagers in their ensuring a school education and a vocational training.
This centre educates about fifteen children including six girls for the school year. One (1) Teacher ensures the training of these children divided into Preparatory class of Course 1st and 2nd year; Elementary course 1st year
The characteristic of each child makes the only teacher available is overloaded. In addition, the lack of means financial adequate makes the deaf-mute children are left with themselves because of their bad conditions state
ASTOVOT in its vocation of popular education wants to support, accompany and give to all the children without distinction any with a basic education. The needs for this centre are enormous as much: miss specific didactic documents, problem of lodging of the children, drops by manpower of the children because of the school fees.
A  expatriate volunteer of ASTOVOT from Italy worked for three months in this centre and that was of a capital utility not only for the teacher and but more especially  for the children who showed a particular enthusiasm while following the courses.

ENVOL, CAST and VIVENDA wants to give to the children all their rights: be nourished, dressed, educated, protected, and be well treated.
The three centres really continue to accompanying them and protecting them against ill-treatments, negligence, working and abuses. The centres send to school all children whom they receive. It is necessary so that they take back trust in them and in future.

Arrived at adolescence, the children who cannot follow the general education are directed towards a vocational training, which leads to a true trade: the seam, sculpture, gardening, the breeding, braids, mechanics, batik, and kitchen.
An effective accompaniment is practised until the active life, bringing to the autonomy of the young people who had been educated in these centres.
In holidays, all accompanied children come to the centre for their activities and games.
Period: July to September

Number of volunteers: Unlimited

*Activities
The volunteers would participate at all of the centres’ activities like:
* five working days for participative knowledge about the volunteer area and his project;
* Help the teachers to guide the children in different activities;
* Work with children in the different workshops (modelling workshop: making of different things for drawing, games, talk, tales and songs dance and music (the volunteers can presented typical cultural aspects of their country as songs, dance…);
*  The volunteer may organized the afternoon and the weekends as they like;
* Continue the work with ENVOL CAST and VIVENDA;
* Do artistic and cultural activities (ASTOVOT is available to teach the volunteer who wants and has the means in dances or percussion or in fashion design;
* The volunteer can even organized a journey to know the area or make other activity.
Volunteer qualification
- The required qualifications are as possible: speech therapist, Social worker, physiotherapist, specialized educator, psychologist
- NB: The volunteer for this project must have good tasks in working with children and able to communicate with children.
- This the moment for English or other speaking language different from French volunteer to improve their learning.
- NB: The volunteer for this project must have a good tasks in
- And the qualification required is A level or required qualification in this subject.

L-MTVASTO 3
ACADEMIC ASSISTANCE/ SUPPORT/TEACHING PROGRAMME

The Project
For this Project, ASTOVOT has a great desire to create an efficient communication and exchange between students and volunteers and between ASTOVOT members.
The schools are full of students but the lack of teachers doesn’t guarantee a sufficient instruction, so this situation has a negative impact on the exams results at the end of the year. ASTOVOT is hardly conscious of this fact and keep on improving long term to provide an efficient assistance to the student in their study during the full school year: revise lessons, completed program and get involved into curricula activities.
The Volunteers are invited to bring any kind of documents, books that can help them. We associate to this project a sensitisation of first notion of hygiene: notion of health rhythm of live (food, sleep), Knowledge of body (growth, function of organs, nutrition, tobacco, alcohol) boarding hygiene …
 The children will be lead to discover prejudicial or beneficial behaviour for their health and take conscious for the limit of their body adopt a good hygiene of life.
Even if the local communities are dying in poverty, they must keep on struggling to support (pay) teachers for the education for their children because of the lack of resources.
So, please if you want to work for local development and for good education for children, and if you want to have another experience for your growing-up, do not hesitate to join us!

> Five types of projects are available

1. Being part of a team of local and volunteers teachers and teaching in French and cultural activities in a Junior/Senior Secondary School;

2. Being part of a team of local and volunteers teachers and teaching in English in a Junior/Senior Secondary School;

3. Being part of a team of local and volunteers teachers and teaching in German and cultural activities in a Junior/Senior Secondary School

4. Being part of a team of local and volunteers teachers and teaching in Drawing and cultural activities in a Junior/Senior Secondary;

5. Being part of a team of local and volunteers teachers and teaching in Music and cultural activities in a Junior/Senior Secondary School;

6. Being part of a team of local and volunteers’ teachers and teaching Sport in a Junior/Senior Secondary School.

* Period of this project: from September to July
* Special qualifications required:
Relevant certificate and at least A level degree or a Training Certificate in this subject are highly needed

Special qualifications recommended:

Be a good team-player, desirous of teaching, love children
Teaching skills, guiding and counselling skills, skills in extracurricular activities

Aims and expected results of the voluntary work:

The inadequate staff strength in the community has been the rationale for the institution of the project. It is expected that the project would help improve in the educational delivery in this region  

Description of the tasks of the volunteer:

Teach children in a junior/senior secondary school engage them also in extra-curricular activities.
The volunteer will be involved in, some activities with the aim of enhancing sustainable global development.
Activities
The volunteers will have training period with teachers in schools in the order to know about the country‘s academic system.
 They can help teacher, prepare and organise with them classes according to country‘s academic program with a view to guide well primary and secondary students.
 The volunteer will have to work 5hours per day according to their agenda. The volunteer will teach the subjects at its choice.
Volunteers, who come from English and German speaking countries, will mainly help the students to improve this pronunciation in English and German and volunteers can also improve their French. For that reasons, we recommend the motivated volunteers who have also a great interest or vocation in teaching.

L-MTVASTO 4: SUPPORT OF THE PERSONAL OF HEALTH.
The project:
This project is initiated in continuation of the request of the volunteers by the directors of two new centres of health of at Kpalimé.  

The objective is to mitigate the staff shortage looking after for the very young centre which finds in the incapacity to employ its beginning sufficient personal. It’s only open to the specialists in health: doctors, wise women, nurses, laboratory but also students who wish to make training courses or carry assistance about tropical health condition.

Activities
The volunteers will help the personal to look after and to assist the patients. The centre lays out an analysis laboratory where can work volunteers technician of laboratory.
Number of volunteers:  Unlimited
* Period of this project: from September to August

L-MTVASTO 5
SUPPORT OF THE PERSONAL IN PUBLIC LIBRARY/COMMUNITY LIBRARY

ASTOVOT has actively participated of a community library at the court of summer 2005. Inaugurated after three working weeks, the library opens its door and makes the pride of the entire village. That project long term will be used to support the local population, in majority young in their effort of information, of documentation for their intellectual and cultural knowledge.
Activities
The volunteers will work with the teachers of the medium in order to create activities being able to incite raised with the reading, to learn how to make research on various subjects, To manage the library and maintenance of books
Place:  Kpalimé
Number of volunteers: four (03)
* Period of this project: from September to August

L-MTVASTO 6: PERSONAL SUPPORT IN COMPUTERS TRAINING CENTER

This project is initiated because of the requests formulated by certain persons in charge of the data-processing centers of the town of Kpalimé

The project aims to reinforce the capacities in human resources in the data-processing centers in order to support the existing trainers for better framing learning and putting the local trainers to have a good knowledge in computer tools

You will live contrast between training in developed countries data processing and realities of the data processing in developing countries.

Activity

- The volunteers will help the formative personnel to frame and assist local trainers

- To assist the trainers in daily work with the young people to cultivate intercultural exchange.

NB: By our gained experience and our collaborations with training centres, we can offer projects to you which do not satisfy only your needs but give some opportunities to you of having experience of the country.

LOCALTIES: Kloto, Agou & Dagni Districts

Period:  from October to September

L-MTVASTO 7: PERSONAL SUPPORT IN COMMUNITES TRAINING CENTRE

Togo had crossed one long period of sociopolitic crisis which unfortunately accentuated the fall of the standard of living of the population with for consequence the school loss and the lack of responsibility for certain parents towards their children

In addition, certain children are given up formal education and left with themselves because of an extreme poverty

To face this situation certain organizations of the civil society set up training centres for these young people stripped in order to give them a better and promising future.

It is the case of the Training centre of stripped created by NGO AGERTO which trains young people in masonry, joinery, welding, sculpture, batik, seam man and lady, painting, weaving.

The various types of project of long term volunteering are initiated by ASTOVOT in partnership with the NGO AGERTO, in order to mitigate the lack of the formative personnel and picture framer and to put in contact the children with the other culture in popular education and participative intercultural exchange.

Activities:

• To help the trainers to frame the young people during the training,

• To work with the young people in the various workshops;

• To make cultural activities and artistic;

• To assist the trainers in daily work with the young people.

It is allowed to the volunteers to also present the typical cultural aspects to their country.

The duration of the work is six hours (6) per day

The volunteer can follow courses of percussions, dances or others according to the desire and the means of the volunteer.

NB: By our gained experience and our collaborations with training centres, we can offer projects to you which do not satisfy only your needs but give also opportunities to you of having experience of the country.

Locality:  Kloto, Agou and Dagni districts.

Period: From October to September

L-MTVASTO 8: WORKING IN BREEDING CENTER

The centre « Groupement d’Elevage Sainte Vierge » is leading by a widow who has a great deal to domesticate these kinds of wild animals. Therefore the local communities in West Africa especially in Togo are very fond of eating this high meat. Another thing is that the centre wants to protect the kind of rabbit which are going out of sight to local communities.

ASTOVOT want to offer his support to this centre and give the opportunity to women and those young people who are working in this centre an intercultural exchange scheme.

This breeding centre associates also traditional hen with aulacodes as you see on picture below.

Do not hesitate to join us for learning and intercultural exchange!

The works: A special time table will be made according to the daily work in cooperation with the responsible of the centre:

Work generally consists in maintaining rabbits and the aulacodes:

 - Research of fodder in the surroundings or other localities of the centre,

 - cleaning of the bed of the aulacodes and rabbits,

- Composition and handing-over of food,

This activity is daily and is done in the morning and the evening.

- learn how to compose foods and maintain the animals

- clean the center and the area where animal are living,

- Search fodder to animals,

- Animals feeding and other extra activities.

Volunteer will have the spare time according to the calendar which will be established together with the person in charge of the centre.

L-MTVASTO 9: RECEIVING ELDEST PERSON IN HOST FAMILIES

This project aims to promote and develop intercultural exchange and solidarity expatriate eldest persons and hosts families in Togo.

ASTOVOT want to receive and make old dynamic persons (45 years and more) to get involved in sustainable development and to discover the depth of the Togolese culture in rural environment.

The minimal period of stay for this project is of one (1) month.

 It will be for the person expatriate and/or their family a true opportunity of discovering true realities, manners and habits of the locality. The volunteer will have to participate and take part in all activities of the host family while being integrated into the daily activities of the host family.

Tourist visits guided could be organized with the member/s of the host family.

The conditions of participations in the project MTV ASTO 6 are particular in the sense that the aim is to make the structure ASTOVOT to be able to implement these activities registered in its plan of action and to be able to reinforce its operational, organisational and human capacities.

The expenses of participation for this project are of 400 euros per member and per month and 750 euros per month for a couple.

The general participation fees LMTV 2010/2011 is followed

FAGAD Togo

SHORT AND LONG TERM VOLUNTARY PROGRAMS

Description of the various types of projects in which the volunteers can freely carry out their voluntary service of social interest or for their vocational training. The fields of intervention for the various categories of projects are: health, agriculture, education, and social service, the promotion of the rights of the person, the micro credit, environment, gender and development.

Project I:

Title: Education

Objectives:

This project aims to:

- Contribute to the efforts of the government for the schooling of the children and to support the teaching staff in the schools where FAGAD intervenes through this project of education.

 - Prepare the children for a better future.

 - Increase the rate of success of the children of this locality.

 - Compensate the lack of teachers.

a)      Primary schools

Target group: Children of the two sexes whose age varies on average between 6 to 10 years.

Activities:

- Help the full-time teaching staff to teach the matters which are stopped in the program (reading, the conjugation, grammar, mental calculation and the writing, the natural science, the songs, the recitations, civic and sporting education...);

- Frame the children at the school;

- Help the teachers to prepare the courses and in the various activities;

- Compensate the teacher in his absence.

Location:

·        The village of ADETA, in the province of  KPELE: Primary school catholic ST Raphaël; Central Public Primary school of KPOTAME, Public Primary school of ZONGO, Central Public Primary school of ADETA.

·        The village of ESSE ZOGBEDJI, in the province of ZIO: Public primary school.

b)      Secondary schools: 

Target group: The provided education for youth whose age varies between 10 to

19 years.

Activities:

- Help the professor teaching at the hours of course of the matter concerned;

- Explain the courses and home works with the students;

- Take part in the monitoring of the home works and compositions;

- Help the professor teaching to mark the copies of the students;

- Help organise the extra-curricular activities;

- Replace the teaching professors in their absence.

NB: The volunteer is free to choose the matter of his preference: French, physical sciences and chemistry, mathematics, the natural science, English...

Location:

·        Province of Kpélé: KEKELI College and General Education College and Colleges of of Adéta, Kayi.

·        Province of Zio: General Education College of ESSE ZOGBEDJI.

c)      Colleges:

 Students of 15 to 22 years old.

Activities:

- Help the professor at the hours of course of the matter concerned;

- Explain the courses and duties with the pupils;

- Take part in the monitoring of the duties and compositions;

- Help the full-time teaching staff to correct the copies of the pupils;

- Help organise of the extra-curricular activities;

NB: The volunteer is free to choose the matter of his preference: French, English, German, and Spanish, physical sciences and chemistry, the natural science, mathematics, philosophy, history.

Location: Province of Kpélé: the College of Adéta.

Project II:

Title: Environment and school self-financing/(school orchards and gardens)

Introduction: The environmental pollution becomes the concern of all. For FAGAD, to find ways and means, it is to sensitize each one for its implication with protection more especially as that enables us to live of nature. For the schools, it is also a means of self-financing to the sale of fruit harvests. The school project of garden does not only make it possible to improve the financial conditions of the schools, it is also an opportunity for the pupils and the population to learn about the biological production and its benefits.

Objectives:

1. Sensitize the children and the population on the benefits, in particular fruit-bearing trees (palm trees, mango trees...), of trees.

2. Find other resources financial for the schools.

3. Sensitize with the agroforestery and the biological production.

4. Incite the children and the population to consume fruits and vegetables to balance their food.

Target groups: Schools and colleges associations of parents, students, teachers and agricultural farmers.

Activities:

·        Organize meetings of sensitizing programmed sets of themes (discussions/debates);

·        Conceive projects;

·        Raise funds;

·        Arrange and manage the old orchards and gardens (weeding, replacement, harvest, sale...);

·        Create new orchards and gardens (cleaning and/or weeding, staking, digging, plantation, watering...) 

Location:

·        Province of ZIO and Kpélé

Project III:

Title: Health

Objectives: This project aims to:

- Contribute to the efforts of Togolese medical authorities in the geographic coverage as regards health and their activities;

- Make it possible to the foreign students to live experiments of the medical practices of the countries of the South and Togo in particular;

- Make it possible to the centres of Togolese health to acquire other approaches and to be able to exchange. Field of intervention: podiatry, genecology -obstetrics, general medicine, surgery...

1. Regional Hospital complex

Activities:

-  Help the doctors in their interventions near the patients,

- Visit of the patients, to practise the history and the physical examination, of the rounds of temperature,

- Make the evaluation of deficiencies in the children,

- Intervene on the level post - surgery with exercises of rehabilitation requiring few means - Consultations in echography, genecology and obstetrics,

- Supervise the patients, to assist the obstetricians,

- Make the gynaecological examinations

- Intervene on the level of positioning of the hospital beds.

Location:

·        Province of Zio: The Regional Hospital of Tsévié,

·        Province of Kloto: The Regional Hospital of Kpalimé.

B. Medical centre - Social

Activities:

- Consultation of the patients,

- Small surgery, injections and bandages,

- Consultation for the childbirth,

- Weighing of the children,

- Vaccination,

- Family Planning.

Location:

·        Province of Kpélé: Social and Medical Centre of Adéta

·        Province of Zio: Social and Medical Centre of ESSE ZOGBEDJI.

Project IV:

Title: HIV/AIDS Education and Care

Objective

By this project, FAGAD aims:

- Sensitize the population as regards preventive education of HIV/AIDS

- Reduce the contamination of the disease sexual, to fight against the clandestine abortions, and the undesired pregnancies;

- Iimply volunteers in the control of the techniques of animation and sensitizing of the groups

Target group: Pupils of the secondary schools, college, trade unions of the drivers, workshops of training of seam and hairstyle,

Activities:

- Inform the population on HIV/AIDS

- Organize meetings of sensitizing and exchanges joining together of the provided education for young people, the members of NGO, associations,

- Organize sketch (forum theatre) to make convey information,

- Organize dances around fire, to gather the population, and animation of artistic workshops around the health of the reproduction,

- Visits in residence, talks, debates,

- Help the matrons of the traditional centres of health of the locality and the obstetricians.

Location:

·        Province of ZIO: ESSE ZOGBEDJI

·        Province of Kpélé: ADETA, KAYI and DZANIPE

·        Province of Avé: ASSAHOUN

Project V:

Title: Technical support to community organizations (agricultural and craft work)

Target group: Agricultural groups: group of bee-keepers, women group of Kayi, group of the physical disabled people of Konda, farmers group of Esse Zogbedji.

Objectives:

- Describe the various systems of production and transformation of honey, the palm tree and oil;

- Describe the new methods of conservation of cereals;

- Analyze the systems and distribution chains of the products: honey; the chalk; cereals;

- Propose tracks of action for better product benefits.

Activities:

- Organization and management of the groupings

- Identification of the groupings

- Selection from 7 to 10 groupings

- Identification of the needs

- Planning of the activities with the groupings

- Projects elaboration  

- Research of the funds

- Technical support and follow-up

- Evaluations and reports

Other activities:

Under the supervision of the responsible of the project the volunteer must:

- Carry out the collection and the analysis of the secondary data

- Refine the questions and assumptions of the study;

- Work out various types of questionnaires according to the target (exporting producers, transformers, conservatives, tradesmen...)

- Carry out semi talks structured with producers and people resources

- Strip the data collected

- Write the reports/ratios study

-Write its monthly magazines report/ratio of progress following an established pre chronogram;

Location:

·        Province of Kpélé

·        Province of Zio.

Project VI:

Title: Small businesses and micro credits for women and women groups

Description of the project:

FAGAD selects and grants small funds of credit to the members of the women groups. Each group takes part in height of 15 % at the starting bottom. The group decides on the projects to implement. Project profiles and tables of withdrawal are drawn up within each group with the support of FAGAD. The group refunds the totality of the granted funds, raised of an interest of 5 % at the end of an expiry. Refunding make it possible to make profit for other groups of the funds of starting credit. The group can reach a second cycle of loan once the refunding of the first cycle is buckled.

To be able to receive a loan, several rules should be accepted. Each member of each group must identify an activity which it estimates to have a control and in the event of credit grants, it can make benefit:

- Be member of a women group;

- Use the credit to start or carry out an income generating activity;

- Accept an interest rate of 5 %;

- Start to refund at the end of two months at monthly intervals;

- Maximum duration of the loan will depends on the perceived cost. The group is responsible for the individual loans granted to each one of its members in the event of non refunding.

- This guaranteed joint guarantee a refunding rate close to 100 %.

Objectives:

- Allow the recipients to carry out income generating activities (small trade, craft industry, truck farming);

- Contribute to the improvement of the economic and social statutes of the families by increasing their financial capacity;

- Reduce poverty within the families.

Target group:

o       Women and women groups,

o       Agricultural groupings and craftsmen.

Activities:

- Meet first the groups and inform them of the project, to take identify the difficulties which they encounter daily in order to propose solutions;

- Help the groups in the process of the starting of their project;

- Help the women groups’ financial management of their small enterprise: how to hold the book of the accounts, the entries, the loads and the balances.

- Follow the women in the markets to carry out the purchases or sales of their goods.

Awaited results:

- Production of the monthly reports of the evolution of the activities;

- Capacity of the women to contribute financially to their home charges;

- More women in the groupings;

- Reinforcement and social mobilization around the projects of collective development.

Location:

Province of Kpélé: Kpélé Adéta.

Project VIII

Title: Equitable Trade

Introduction: The equitable trade is a commercial partnership based on the dialogue, the transparency and the respect which aims at equity between the producers and the consumers of the same locality on the one hand and between the producers of the countries of the south and the purchasers of the countries of north on the other hand. This partnership aims to the sustainable development of the marginalized producers of the province of Kpélé and possibly in the area. This partnership also aims to defending the rights of the producers of the south, to fight against the child work.

Objectives:

- Ensure a right remuneration of labour of the most underprivileged producers and craftsmen of the province, allowing them to satisfy their most elementary needs: health, education, housing and a social protection;

- Guarantee the respect of the rights of the people by the elimination of the child work of and the exploitation of the domestic children;

- Produce by preserving the ecosystem;

- Offer to the consumers products of quality;

- Have access to the markets and information on the prices of the products of the peasants and craftsmen

Sector of intervention:

- The commercial field: sale of the products; the purchase of the imported products, negotiation of the prices,

- Ecosystem and rights of the producers.

Target group: Farmers and craftsmen, consumers, the traders, wholesalers and retailers, ecologists, employers.

Activities:

- Identify the zones of conflicts in commercial terms, the actors implied (producing, intermediate and consuming);

- Identify the techniques used to exploit the producers;

- Identify in the zone of intervention the cases of the children victims of the exploitation and of the forced labour or any other form of slavery;

- Create a file of the various food products with their prices;

- Find approaches of solution while offering to the various actors to benefit, in an equitable way, from their activities;

- Help the country and craft men groups to run their productions,

- Initiate the traders to treasury management;

- Help the peasants, the traders and the craftsmen to organize and protect their incomes.

Location: ADETA, in the province of Kpélé.

OTHER POSSIBILITIES

I. Volunteers of group of volunteers can contact us to prepare together with us a project of their own initiative.

II. Work with the secretariat like administration and management.