Togo

For our Mteds internship, we went to TOGO for a month to work with the SOS VISAV association. This association is located in Tsévié in the maritime region, 40 minutes north of Lomé by car.

First of all, we spent time with APAF, an NGO based in several countries in the southern hemisphere, which works on replanting fertile trees in villages and fields.

Then we spent four days in the village of Henovikope, where we went with the farmers to the fields to plant rice and tomatoes and harvest corn and peanuts.

With the association, we carried out several awareness-raising activities in this village on the production of liquid and solid fertilisers to be used in the fields to fertilise the soil and move away from chemical fertilisers.

 

 

 

Weekends were reserved for sightseeing and visits, so we went to Lomé, Kpalimé, and Atakpamé, where we met up with Juliette and Agathe, who are doing their third-year internship at an experimental farm.

Before leaving for TOGO, we decided with our internship supervisor to build a farm school that would enable the association to work on the disappearance of traditional seeds and provide training to farmers on these issues.

 

We therefore set up an online fundraising campaign, which raised around €1,000. This enabled us to finance equipment such as wheelbarrows, shovels, axes and machetes, as well as the construction of a hut on the site to store the equipment and accommodate the farmers.