This project aims at associating the practical gardening and environmental education for a sustainable development in order to sensitise our basic communities in understanding and conservation of our environment.
The project consists of proposing workshops of educational gardening, ecology and therapeutic for our public, in particular the Togolese volunteers and the pupils of primary and middle schools of Kpalime. Indeed it provides a framework opening out to discover, listen to, exchange, experiment and take initiatives.
1-Assistant coordination of the activities of the gardening and environmental education

Support the coordination of sustainable environment projects led by ASTOVOT
Help to develop the actions with the school partners

Co-definition of new projects of gardening and environmental education for a sustainable development, schedule and appointment setting
Management of partnerships
Follow-up and assessment of projects
Feed the blog of the association
Creation, adaptation and diffusion of the tools for animation
Realisation of teaching cards

2-Maintenance of ASTOVOT educational garden
Objectives
Assure the installation of a teaching garden which must be used as a place of exchange, education and experimentation in production of biological vegetables and sustainable development
Take care of the organic garden, prepare the ground, sow grains, spray plants, weed herbs and harvest
Produce fertilisers and natural pesticides

Ecological Maintenance of the cultures
Installation of new cultures
Various works

3- Animation of workshops of gardening and environmental education for a sustainable development

Accompany the creation of ecological gardens with the children
Co-create projects of animation around the ecological garden and environmental education for a Sustainable development for children
Sensitise the children on environmental understanding through playful and educational games
Develop know-how and conscience by performing collective activities

Co-create groups of children in the educational gardens
Use playful educational tools for environmental education
Teach the children the techniques of ecological gardening

With the free school fees (tuition) in the public primary schools of Togo, the kindergartens of the Plateaux Region experienced an increasing number of children aged from 2 to 5 years.
The number of pre-school teachers, however, decreases from year to year and available teachers are extremely busy. This project will therefore partly reduce the work of the teachers through assistance of international volunteers.

Depending on the specific needs and requests, the volunteers will work in the kindergartens where the assistance is essential.

Children at the age of 2 to 6 years

Kpalimé

Fee €290/month, decreasing for longer stay

Host family

The center of Vivenda Kpalimé was established in 2003 to support deaf-mute children and teenagers by providing them with formal education and vocational training.

An educator provides training for these children who are divided into different grades of elementary school. The only educator available is overloaded, because each child has his/her own particularity. Moreover, the lack of adequate financial resources leaves deaf-mute children on their own. The center has tremendous needs: it lacks specific educational materials, there are problems with the accommodation for the children and a decrease in the number of children because of school fees is noted.

ASTOVOT, which aims to promote popular education, wants to support, assist and provide all children, without any distinction, with basic education. A former ASTOVOT volunteer worked for three months at the center and it was of enormous value, not only for the educator, but also and especially for the children who have shown particular enthusiasm in the courses.

Children living with a hearing disability

Kpalimé

•Developing the communication’s channel;
•Managing the social networks of the ASTOVOT ONG: collecting, handling and updating all the information pertaining the activities, which have to be promoted;
•Editing the newsletter to be sent to the partners once every two months;
•Supporting the preparation of the projects’ dossiers to be used while looking for partners’ funding;
•Translating documents from French into English;
•Supporting the social exchanges among the people and the volunteers in terms of communication issues;
•Writing reports or other documents for the ASTOVOT coordination staff;
•Updating the yearbook with the national and international volunteers;
•Supporting the entertaining activities of the organization.

The knowledge of the communication processes is required, as well of a good command of all its tools, channels and IT applications.
Demanded is also some experience in handling the social networks (eg: Facebook).
Some fundraising knowledge would be an asset.
Curiosity, flexibility, availability, proactivity and being open minded complete the profile.

Fee €290/month decreasing for longer stay
Accommodation with host family

ASTOVOT, aware of the negative impact of the lack of teachers and the large number of students, supports the government efforts to provide students with better educational conditions. By this means, ASTOVOT has initiated this type of long-term projects in order to:
-Enable effective assistance to students during their studies;
-Explain poorly understood chapters and complete unfinished agendas;
-Initiate with them a method of studying for an adequate preparation for their exams at the end of the school year;
-Increase the success rate of the students

Volunteers are invited to bring any documents that can serve them.
Notions of hygiene and health, appropriate lifestyle (sleeping, eating ...), a knowledge of the body (growth, organ function, nutrition, physical activity, smoking, alcohol) and personal hygiene are associated with the project (if possible), especially for elementary students. Children will be encouraged to discover harmful and beneficial behavior to their health, recognize the limits of their bodies and adopt a healthy lifestyle

students of both sexes between the age of 6 to 11

students of both sexes between the age of 12 to 15

students of both sexes between the age of 16 and 18

Given the high rate of students who have to repeat a school year in the Togolese education system, students with a higher age than the school-age population might be found on every level of education.

5 days

Volunteers will support students in Mathematics, Physics, English, French or German in private, public and community schools. German courses are given at a Senior Secondary School and the volunteer needs a Master Degree.

The volunteer is placed in a school. S/he will do an internship with a teacher to get acquainted with the country's educational system and assist the teacher in her/his work.

Then, S/he:-Prepares courses in collaboration with a teacher and organizes support classes in accordance with existing programs in the country for a better supervision of primary and secondary school students
-Helps the teacher to correct copies of the students,
-Guards students during the various assessments (written tests, practice tests, final examinations)
-Promotes extracurricular activities in clubs: drawing, drama, English, German and reading

The volunteer works approximately six (6) hours per day, depending on schedules.
S/he will teach in the subject of her/his choice, must enjoy working in a team and stay tuned for the students. Extra-curricular activities are encouraged.

specialized training is desirable.
- For the college, a Bachelors Degree or equivalent training is required.
- For high school, a Master’s Degree or equivalent training is required.
- For the support / guidance of the blind, the volunteer should have working knowledge of Braille or have the desire to work with the blind and learn Braille.

However, this project is also open to every person having a minimum of knowledge which can be shared with the students.

Languages (English, French, German, Spanish), drawing, music and sports, mathematics and physical sciences;

Kloto and Agou,

October to June

Fee €290/month decreasing for longer stay
Accommodation with host families

If you love reading and you believe in sharing your knowledge, then you are the volunteer we are looking for. In order to be able to take part in this project, we need you to feel at ease in a library, with books and writing and, of course, to be willing to spread your passion for the books.
Our aim is encouraging the reading and providing the children with all the tools they may need during their studies and, more generally, life.

– Deepen the students` interest in reading and develop their skills;
– Encourage the schoolchildren to read more;
– Ensure that reading becomes an actual educational tool, a tool useful for researching, having success, being independent and developing themselves;
– Promote the books and the library in the society.

book club, traveling library in the village facilities and any other activities you can think of and organize. Interesting proposals are welcome!
Moreover, you would be a valuable help in all the daily tasks pertaining to the traveling library: books’ restoration, records management (lending, reader cards, etc.) or meeting the local authorities to organize an event.
You can also help with the training of other volunteers, in order for them to improve their work: training for the extracurricular activities entertainers, IT support or else.

There are not any specific skills.
Willingness to learn and being ready to help in all the activities are two conditions, as well as the know-how that you got from your education: you are used to read, you are enthusiastic about books, libraries and novels and you are able to look for information in the encyclopedia.

Kpalimé

Fee €290/month decreasing for longer stay
Accommodation with host family

Promotion of the girls’ education
This project wants to promote the education of the girls of the General Education High School (Collège de l’Enseignement Général - CEG) in Agomé-Tomégbé, through supporting courses in English and French, creating and entertaining members’ clubs for all the college girls and organizing educational conferences.
Since 1999, the Action Raven Abra association encourages the education of the young girls of Tomégbé, after noticing how big was the educational gap between them and the same age boys. Indeed, in a group of ten girls in the first year of “college” (12 yo), only three were able to finish it (at 15 yo). There are several reasons: families’ financial priority to give education to the boys, lack of time for the homework because the Tomégbé girls have to do the housekeeping, early pregnancies, etc. Such a project was really necessary in order to support these girls. For this purpose, a youth centre for girls was built to give the CEG young women the chance of working together and have a meeting point.

- A big multifunctional room used as study-, cultural activities and meeting room;
- a library with 1500 schoolbooks and books;
- a computer room;
- 3 residency rooms, which can host 12 girls. 7 additional rooms will be built in the future.

-Assist the director of the centre in the social educational animation activities and leisure activities; -Increase the success rates of the girls
-Encourage the girls of the centre to evolve in their studies

1-Supporting courses in English
2-Creating and entertaining members’ clubs for all the college girls:•Informatics Club,
•Sport Club,
•Theather and music Club,
•Cinema Club
3-Organising a conference once a month
4-Organising other activities for the centre

This project is open to all the motivated female volunteers willing to share their knowledge with the young girls of the centre and the school.
You have to be a team player and be available to assist the girls of the youth centre.

Fee €290/month decreasing for longer stays

Accommodation with host families