Fish farming and elevation bring young people to Okama

Like Amélalo Agbélenko, young people from the village of Okama located almost 200 kilometers from Lomé, are happy.They carry out income -generating activities that allow them to live better.""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Before, we were suffering.But now we are doing well, """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""said Amélalo.

They benefited from a support program called Project of employment opportunities for vulnerable young people (EJV).Thanks to this project, these young people in the locality have come out of their vulnerability situation.

""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Today, we are good.Before, it was hard.I couldn't have something to eat.But today I am fine.""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

Fish farming...

In Okama, young people have set up fish ponds.They raise fish there.These fish are sold fresh, smoked or dried.And it works, since income allows them to provide for them and to improve community actions.

Fish ponds for fish raising.

""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""We created a fish pool.It helped us a lot. On a vendu plus de 450 000 francs"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""", explique Tevi Koffi Innocent, président du comité villageois de développement (CVD).

The benefit released was used to the erection of a colleague in the locality.And the lessons have already started.

""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Auparavant, les enfants quittent ici pour aller à l’école à Hihéatro et Atakpamé"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" situés à une vingtaine de kilomètres.And this situation has created a lot of school losses.

""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Sometimes young girls get pregnant, young men run behind television.""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

Koffi A young beneficiary of the program testifies to having abandoned school very early.

""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""In this village, there was no colleague.And we went to school in Hiheatro, 17 km.Me, I made the appearance and I abandoned the school in the sixth grade.I was 11 years old.""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

if dont eat, stomach ache if eat, stomach ache ?? how to win

— tuna ?! #promking Mon Jul 05 19:40:23 +0000 2021

Pork Elevation...

Unlike other young people from the village, he opted for porcly farming as part of the Vulnerable Youth Employment Project (EJV).

Pork breeding is also part of young people's activities

""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""I earn a lot of money.Today if I want to eat pork, I kill it and I eat it.I cemented my room.I bought a TV, although I am in the village.I use a solar panel.""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

For her part, Eugenie, the twenties, young mother of two, joined the trade.It sells cosmetic products as well as clothing, underwear for men and women.

""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""It works well and the benefit that we draw allows us to support our needs and those of our children.Before it was difficult.We had no money to send children to school and feed them.But a with this project, things have changed.And when they fall sick, we manage to pay the care.""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

World Bank assistance

The project was controlled by the National Base Development Support Agency (ANADEB) with the financial and technical support of the World Bank.

It affects the implementation of activities generating Revet The work at high intensity of labor for the rehabilitation of the tracks, the retained of water and the pools.Mazalo Katanga is the agency director.

""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""This project aims to insert socio-professional the young people of certain communities, especially in rural areas.Each of these villages was to identify a community project.We had to enlist them around community interest.""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

These young people were trained in the implementation process and the extension of an income -generating activity.

""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""The project, we have found that it has brought more to the life of these young people, in terms of capacity to carry out income -generating activities and especially what is important, this project has enabled the consolidation of social cohesion tocommunity breast.""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""