“TERRE AFRICAINE wishes you a united happy new year 2017!”

Trying out the International Solidarity experience is possible!

"You want to discover the international solidarity?

You want to try or try again an experience for young?"

Our mission of October 2016 in pictures.

Photos of our last mission are available in our section “Photos”!

Our stand of hand-crafted Senegalese stuff in Mousson at the Christmas Market! A great day!

Volunteering day at Saint-Louis in Senegal the 6th October 2016: we will be there!

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• Presentation of Terre Africaine

  Terre Africaine is an association of international and mutual assistance created in 1996.

  Our goals are:

  -To identify and to aware peope of the needs of the Africans in France and in Africa.

  -To create networks of French and African union.

  -To organize a program of actions aiming at inserting young people on the French territory with social and educational ways.

  -To take part in the development of the African community.

   

  The activities of the association are divided between international solidarity actions and awareness actions in France.

  The association works on small projects aiming at helping directly the populations and African associations. The projects are led in partnership with the local associations.

  After multiple years of experience on the field, the association now has a developed network of people; the applications of interventions are plentiful.

  The project is chosen depending on the reliability of the local partnership and of the type of project requested.

  Most of the projects are done by young people as part of the JSIMAEE (Jeunesse Solidarité Internationale du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et Européennes). It is an unforgettable experience which gives, to some, the desire to continue the adventure.

  Terre Africaine and the international solidarity

   

  Help by forgetting one’s logics and certainties.

  It is important to discuss with partnerships. The projects have to be a vital need.

  Because if tomorrow the populations don’t see any structure improving their quality of life, they will have to increase the number of people living in the cities.

  The bravest ones will choose to join Europe and will increase the number of illegal clandestines.

  Don’t build just to give yourself a good conscientiousness, make sure that the project won’t be redirected and that it will benefit the population.

   

  The construction of a school or of a free clinic must be followed by the creation of a post of a teacher or a medical specialist. Does the country may afford these posts?

  So, we take part in the renovation or the construction of activities already existing but which don’t own premise or when the partnership association decides to take care of the activity.

   

  Helping to make small social and economic projects allows to make those plans profitable for the local population.

   

   
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Layout of a computer room to the center of girls of Misserguines – Algeria 2014

In April 2014, a partnership between multiple French and Algerian associations allowed the organization of a library and computer room in the center of assisted girls of Misserguine.

Why doing this?

Through the very multiple activities led near the center of the assisted girls of Misserghine, in Oran, the members of the partner associations noticed the terrible state of the structures. Children themselves were requesting help.
Regularly, the adherents signaled the necessity of working in order to improve the quality of living in the center. Waiting for a possibility of financing, this project was rejected many times.

The creation of a sure partnership and the help of motivated volunteers allowed the realization of this project which was aiming at the right of education and at the knowledge to all and to good study conditions. The book is a tool of open-mindedness; it is a great way to share one’s culture.

Partnerships for this action

Solidarity Association Euromagh. Its mission is to promote volunteering in European countries and in North African countries thanks to the organization of activities (with the help of local partners).

SDH (Association Santé Sidi El Houari) created in 1991, has the objective to help developing socially and economically the city of Oran. Its objectives are education to the people and prevent from the risky behaviors, the formation and insertion of young people in the work life, promote the architectural heritage and the protection of the environment.

Helpiste is a “club” (non-governmental organization) which has the objective to help the poorer ones.

Alliance Club is the “Club Scientific of the Faculty of Medicine of ORAN” which contains various doctors. Alliance has for objective to help people in difficulty, mainly sick children, orphans and disadvantaged kids. Alliance also wants to participate and organize scientific shows.

Construction of a classroom and animations JSI 2014

Construction site JSI Diele Mbam – July 2013

History of our projects

Our main actions:

 - 17th April 1996: creation of the association by a small group of students to lead international solidarity actions.

 - January 1997: Setting up of a women garden in N’gouye, in Senegal

 - June 1998: Endowment of academic material in the schools of villages in the region of Marrakech, in Morocco

 - February 1999: solidarity convoy, assembling 8 French and German associations for the region of Saint-Louis, in Senegal. Donation of vehicles and material: 3 vehicles to Senegalese associations, a small bus to Keur Conde to the educational farm, a 4L van to Toubacounta to the apiculture and to the teaching farm association, a C25, a flatbed truck to Pete to the association of craftsmen of the training center, 20 voluntary renting bicycles and materials of childcare to a women association; 25 tents for the scouts in Senegal, books to the schools of Saint-Louis, of N’Gékockh, of M’Bour, of Leybar; a projector and a tape recorder to the secondary school of Podor.

 - May/June 2000: Construction of a teaching center in Pete, in Senegal, with the association of craftsmen.

 - January 2001: Second solidarity convoy sent in social centers, hospitals and to the scouts of Saint-Louis.

 - March/April 2004: Donation of a pirogue to the association of women of Wowpa (Mauritania), it will make the access to the markets on the river Senegal easier.

 - October 2004: Construction of the teaching center in the educational farm of N’Gekochk, in Senegal.

 - January/February 2005: Arranging of a school garden in the Guede village (Senegal), installation of a solar pump and of a supplying pool of water.

 - July 2005: Shared actions with the association AJIS (Action de Jeunesse Interculturelle et Solidaire = United and Intercultural Action of Youth) in order to make a reception centre in Lebanon.

 - October/November 2005: Construction of a poultry farm in Ziguinchor, in Senegal.

 - February 2006: Setting up of a teaching garden and of a poultry farm in a school of Leybar, in Senegal.

 - August 2006 and august 2007: Construction and installation of toilet blocks of the maternity ward of Diagnon (Senegal)

 - From 2008 to 2011: Construction, equipping and launching of the social center of the BAOBABS in Boutou N’dour, in Senegal.

 - 2010 and 2011: Setting up of a fence to the school of Keur Barka and construction of a room for the teachers.

 - June 2011: Layout of a computers room and of a library in the hospital for children of Oran, in Algeria.

 - April 2012: Construction of two classrooms for the school of Boutou N’dour (Senegal).

 - July 2013: Construction of a library and donation of books to the school of Diele Mbame (Senegal), renovation of a Year 2 classroom and drawing of a fresco with 10 young French and 10 young Senegalese people.

 - April 2014: Layout of a library/computer room in the center of assisted girls of Misserguine (in Oran, in Algeria).

 - October 2014: Construction of a classroom in the primary school of Keur Barka and sessions of animations in four schools in the region of Saint-Louis, in Senegal.

The Teaching League, our partner!

Since 1991, the Federation of Secular Works of Meurthe and Moselle, with his International Action, sponsors or even elaborates projects within the frame of VVSI and JSI. Different works took place in Senegal, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Mauritania, Lebanon and Bénin. Its regional network groups around fifteen associations of International Solidarity.

                Some actions, within the scope of the awareness campaign “PAS D’EDUCATION, PAS D’AVENIR” (No education, no future) for schools  in Afghanistan, Senegal, Algeria and Morocco, were organized with Secular Solidarity.