ASSOCIATED VOLUNTEER experts

Agreement signed with CADESA, cocoa cooperative in Ivory Coast

An agreement was signed entrusting AVe with a marketing mission to seek out this future partner. AVe expert Pierre took charge of this mission.

Construction site in Djilas

Follow-up of the construction site of a dispensary and a maternity hospital in Djilas Senegal

At the end of February, Eric, an AVe expert specializing in building management, went to Djilas to check, in situ, the progress of the construction site of the dispensary and the maternity hospital. Observation on the spot: The works started at the end of December 2022, once the water connection was realized. Currently 18 workers are working on the site.  For the maternity hospital, the foundations are finished as well as the installation of the longrines (reinforced concrete beams). Next will come the passage of the underground networks and the slab of the first floor. For the dispensary, the foundations are 90% complete. General assessment: the company is doing a very good job, the schedule provided suggests that the work will be completed by the end of the year.

February 7, 2023: AVe's annual general meeting by videoconference

On February 7, 2023, our association held its annual general meeting by videoconference. Almost all members were present. The activity and financial reports for 2022, the orientation report and the 2023 budget were presented and voted. For 2023, we envisage a development of the activities after three years of emptiness due to the COVID and the war in Ukraine which strongly impacted the travels abroad

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 Objective of the partnership : the development of professional pig farms in AFRICA

After a few months of exchange between our two organizations during which each was able to appreciate the activities developed with the African pig breeders in their respective field, it appeared relevant to each organization to finalize a framework agreement of partnership having for objective the development of the professional pig farms in Africa. The framework agreement provides for the sharing of information sheets on pig farming in Africa (about thirty) representing our common reference system of advice, the provision of 4 AVe experts to support groups of African pig farmers selected by AXIOM, and collaboration on training for African pig farmers. The concrete actions of intervention in the various African countries will be contractualized by country/country endorsements.

Entrance of the health center in Djilas 

Signature of a 2nd agreement with a religious congregation for a follow-up of a health center in Senegal

The first agreement signed in March 2020 concerned a support to the project management for the creation of a dispensary and a maternity in Djilas in Senegal. Eric brought his expertise for the plans, the specifications of the two buildings and the relationship with a local building contractor. He carried out this work remotely and by travelling to the site three times. Now the construction site is launched. The 2nd agreement concerns the follow-up of the construction site until the buildings are put into service..

 Signature of an agreement with a Senegalese living in France for an agricultural project in his country

 A young Senegalese man from the Senegalese diaspora in France, wishing to invest in his country with a double objective: to contribute to the food sovereignty of Senegal and to create jobs there, has asked AVe to support an agricultural project. This project includes several activities:

• A pig farm with 10 breeding sows 
• An irrigated garden on 2 ha for the production of vegetables, twelve months out of twelve
• Annual crops on 20 ha (corn, soybeans ...) produced during the rainy season
• Amango orchard of 8 ha.

It is a complex project requiring diversified skills.Three AVe experts of different specialties are mobilized to provide support.. 

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In 10 years, some thirty AVe experts have carried out 125 missions abroad. 15 of these experts met at the Cammpanile hotel in Rennes center station to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the association. The day was animated by Mr Nona Barazer of SODIMEDIA with the program :

• Retrospective of AVe interventions abroad through photos commented by each expert
• A look into the future based on testimonials from the three tPME agricoles d’Afrique

1. Agricultural SMEs in Africa: intervention in video conference René FOCHE and Fabrice TCHOUAFFE, leaders of African SMEs 
2.  French NGO of international cooperation: intervention of Mr Bruno Angsthlem (in person) representing the CCFD
3. Industrial SMEs in China: intervention of experts working in China

This day of sharing, full of emotion was greatly appreciated by all

Click below to access the slideshow of AVe's 10th anniversary

Technical and economic support to two women's cooperatives involved in irrigated agro-ecological market gardening

In February 2022, Louis AVe expert went to two villages near Djougou in Benin, a mission programmed in the framework of an agreement signed with a Belgian association, the ASBL Le Verso du Miroir. This association has set up two vegetable gardens of 2 ha in two villages 5 km apart. On each of them, a women's cooperative practices irrigated agroecological market gardening.

For each garden, the expert wrote a roadmap based on the diagnosis of each site. Their situation is very different, as one (Passari) has been in place since 2016 while the other (Nimane) has just started.

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January 11^th 2022 : AVe's Annual General Meeting

On January 11, 2022, our association held its annual general meeting by videoconference. Almost all members were present. The reports (activities and financial) of the past year and the coming year were presented and voted. For 2022, we decided to mark the 10th anniversary of our association and to continue our mission of transferring voluntary expertise to the international level, aiming at mobilizing each member expert.

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