Our mission is to build sustainable communities in amazing places that benefit locals and visiting members; inspiring positive change within and far beyond the village.
Our current community is in its second season in Sierra Leone.
In October 2011 the management of Tribewanted Vorovoro was handed back to the local community. After 5 years of building a new community on Vorovoro we are happy to see Tui Mali, the Mataqali (landowners) and the wider community of Mali take more ownership of the project. We expect the community will be re-open in 2012 and will post details here.
Community Structure & Experience
A maximum of 30 tribe members spend a minimum of 1 week at a time living alongside a local team and community immersed in the day to day running and development of the village.
For our members it’s about playing a part – however small – in something positive, adventurous, and in some cases, life-changing.
When you take part in Tribewanted you’re not sacrificing your hard earnt time-out for an intense volunteer programme nor are you replacing a much-needed beach holiday.
You’re relaxing, learning, connecting, playing. You’re joining a community. A real one.
It’s not a weird cult. Its cross-cultural living. In just a week or two it can change the way you think about a lot of things. And even if it doesn’t, you’ll have the time of your life. Just ask those who have already done it.
For our local communities Tribewanted is about kick-starting the kind of sustainable development they’re looking for but cannot achieve on their own. It’s a partnership. And in the long-term it’s their project to lead.
Between our local communities, teams, partners and members we co-fund, create, and build our communities.
You can join Tribewanted online and follow for free, support with a donation or better still, visit us.
Better still you can visit Vorovoro Island (when we re-open) or John Obey Beach and spend anytime from a week or more living alongside up to 30 other tribe members and the local community and taking part in all aspects of the project. Book tribe time
financially: investing in social enterprise
Where your money goes:
10% web management/accounts
20% commissions / marketing / pr
70% invested locally: land leases, development materials, equipment, employment, training, transport, food, legal, insurance
Our tribe membership fees cover the local experience and add to the development budget locally. Beyond our local tribe communities we have no full-time employees or offices, the rest of the management is done by designers and web consultants and volunteer tribe members.
Each country we work in demands different models of development and business structure. We adapt to these and work with appropriate partners. What we don’t change is our values or mission.
socially: centers for cultural heritage
At the heart of tribewanted is the idea of community. Sharing a life in a beautiful place with wise and caring people.
environmentally: models to inspire behavioural change
Yes! Tribewanted is a sustainable development project, an adventure holiday, and a cultural journey with three main aims:
1. Community Building. On our projects this means embracing and celebrating the local culture and traditions and becoming a unique focal point for responsible tourism in the region. On-line this means giving a social network a purpose – a real-space and home.
2. Sustainable Living. Build local and global awareness (on Tribewanted.com) of our impact on the planet through the realisation that even on a tropical island every action has a consequence well beyond the beach. Use our communities as a ‘test-bed’ for small-scale sustainable projects and education that visiting tribe members and locals can contribute to and be part of. Inspire local community and tribe members to take their experience home with them.
3. Adventurous Experience. To connect like-minded people together online and in a magical place for an unforgettable journey.
Tribewanted has been followed by media from around the world and in January 2008 a 5-part BBC observational documentary was broadcast. Ben has also written a book about the adventure.
In the beginning …Nat Geo
A year on …Observer / Guardian / Telegraph / Getaway
BBC Documentary … ‘Paradise or Bust’
Ben’s story … Buy the book
In the news … Tribewanted Press
Tribal TV … Videos from Vorovoro
Member’s feedback … (Testimonials / My Vorovoro)
Tevita’s Story
Hammock Society Interviews
French / German / Spanish PR
and in Sierra Leone…
In the next decade we would like to build a global collection of local tribes connected by their shared values, people and solar powered lap-tops.
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