Summer is almost here and it’s an exciting time for all of us involved with Tribewanted. As many of you know, Team Fiji is coming to England to take part in the Legends of Fiji cultural exhibition at the Hampton Court Flower show.
So for those of you who have visited Vorovoro, have enjoyed following the project over the past three years, are passionate about the area and its people, this is your chance to get involved. Come along to the Hampton Court Flower Show enjoy the day, hang out with Team Fiji AND help us to give something back to their community.
We will be using this fantastic opportunity to work alongside Ben and the rest of the Tribewanted team to let people know what the Tribewanted Dream Foundation is all about, to help raise funds to build composting toilets, water tanks back in Fiji, and to support other local projects or ideas to help benefit the local community in Fiji.
We need volunteers to muck in and help out the coming weeks. If you have time, specific skills, or would just like to help out where you can, here is what we need:
Volunteers to take turns representing TWDF at the Fiji Village at the Hampton Court Flower Show, between 7th to 12th July. This will include talking to visitors about the work of the TWDF, to become involved or to donate.
Sunday Social & BBQ: Sunday 28th June
Dream Foundation BBQ with Team Fiji, London – location TBC
Tickets £15 (£10 to TWDF)
dreamfoundationtrustees@tribewanted.com
Co-ordinators – We also looking for volunteers with good organising skills to get these events running smoothly. People with experience in fundraising, events management and marketing for example would be a huge bonus.
If you are interested in volunteering for the Tribewanted Dream Foundation in any capacity or want more information on what you would need to do to help with the events for Team Fiji’s visit please contact dreamfoundationtrustees@tribewanted.com
So, what’s been going on with the Tribewanted Dream Foundation then ? Does it still exist ? Have we spent all the money on beer and flights to Fiji ? Have we raised enough money to do anything useful ? Are we a registered charity yet ? What’s on the agenda for 2009 ?
Well, to find the answers to these questions, read on.
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The Trustees have been continuing with the mind-numbingly boring process of jumping through all the administrative hoops required to be recognised as a charity by the Charities Commission. This includes setting TWDF as an incorporated company in it’s own right and submitting ourselves for a criminal background check. Luckily we all have super-clean aliases in place so no dirt should be raised on that front. To all intents and purposes the paperwork is complete for final registration by the Commission, and the final hurdle is to show that we have annual receipts in excess of 5,000 pounds per year. This has come as a bit of a setback as we were hoping to be registered below this figure as many people like to see the benefit of Gift Aid when donating, something we can’t claim without registration, so it’s a bit of a chicken and egg situation.
Rather than see this as a big problem we want to use it as an incentive. The goal is to push on regardless and raise enough money in as short a time as possible to implement a key project – that project being the construction of composting toilet blocks for the school and villages on Mali. As many of you are aware the New Year saw some serious flooding in the Fiji Islands, and this exacerbates the problems of hygiene and cleanliness. Composting toilet blocks would be a big improvement on existing facilities, and have the added benefits of being reasonably cheap and simple to construct, as well as being eco-friendly.
The latest estimated cost-per-loo is estimated at around FJ$1,300. There are at least two villages plus the school that would benefit from these facilities, so we are looking at around FJ$4,000 to complete this work.
A follow-up project for additional fund-raising incentive is the provision of water tanks, and again this is key to hygiene and cleanliness so dovetails quite nicely with the composting toilet project. These are more costly to construct and there are at least two sites which would benefit, so a successful campaign to raise funds for this project would take us safely through the £5,000 mark.
On the non-fundraising front we are looking at putting together a non-executive board of people who want to take an active role in running and advising TWDF. This includes helping co-ordinate volunteers, seeking out possible partnerships and fundraising opportunities through contacts/companies, on-the-ground co-ordination for projects, and generally widening our pool of knowledge and expertise into other areas.
These are the main items we want to focus on right now to push TWDF forward and make a difference in 2009, a year which has started rather badly for the people of Fiji. We know everyone is continually bombarded with requests for donations to help charities in the UK and abroad, and for most Fiji is a long long way away. But, there are around 1,750 of you out there who have joined Tribewanted, or have joined the Tribewanted group on Facebook, plus another 6,250+ who have signed up as Free Members. Around half the paying members have travelled to Vorovoro and have first hand experience meeting the people of Mali. Next time you go to the loo and then turn on the tap to wash your hands, take a minute to think about helping out people you actually have a personal connection with who currently do not have these “luxuries”.....
The simple maths is that with a neglible impact on your lifestyle you can greatly improve that of a great many others. With a pool of 8,000 Tribies out there who have signed up in some form what could we achieve if everyone was to contribute something ?
£5 – Composting toilets for the school and villages plus one water tank
£10 – Two more water tanks
£15 – Toilets, water tanks, plus community hall, plus funding towards initial study for seawall defences
£20 – All the above, plus sponsorship of local co-ordinators, teachers
If you would prefer to volunteer with us your support can help us strengthen the charity, by helping us fundraise, deliver on our projects and build our profile.
So, if you can help out in any way get involved. A little can go a very long way !
You can email us at: DreamFoundationTrustees@Tribewanted.com.
If you want to write or post us information please use the address below:
Tribewanted Dream Foundation
Floor 5
The Amphenol Business Complex
Thanet way
Whitstable
Kent, UK
CT5 3JF
Love Fiji, Vorovoro and the Tribewanted Dream Foundation? Want to help raise thousands of desperately-needed pounds for our work to support the wonderful people of Mali Province? Read below to find out how:
If every member of Tribewanted donated £25 or $49 (USD) to Tribewanted Dream Foundation we raise our target of £30,000 ($60,000 USD) TODAY!
There are so many ways that you can fundraise for us, if you want to know more about work of the TribeWanted Dream Foundation feel free to contact us: dreamfoundationtrustees@tribewanted.com
Here are a few simple ideas
The easiest way you can help us make a difference is by making a donation. You can:
Support TWDF in the development of fundraising ideas, events and ways to help us help the people of Northern Fiji.
You can do this by:
Get involved in the growth and development of the charity. As a small charity we are hugely reliant on our strong and committed base of volunteers – do you want to get involved and help us build something brilliant? Below is just a short list of some things you can do to help us:
We know lots of you have had brilliant ideas already about what could be done in Fiji to help support its people and generate extra income. Get involved in this group and help build something big that will help make a long-term difference.
Contact: Helen [at] Tribewanted [dot] com for more details.
“As you all know that most of us are unemployed and we cant find the money for these projects anyhow. We have to sweat and it is difficult for us to meet our family needs” Kesiano Rokocika, Vesi Village.
The TribeWanted Dream Foundation has been set-up to enable the long-term sustainable ecological and economic development of Mali province for its people.
The TribeWanted Dream Foundation wants to look at two main areas to support the people of Mali:
The trustees were elected in the spring of 2007 and are now in the process of registering the organisation with the charity commission in the UK.
“As we all know that the climate has changed which causes the sea water to rise. Before some places in Vesi the seawater didn’t reach but now it does. So that is why we need a jetty to be 3 metres high to control the incoming seawater”.
We spent a month in Vorovoro traveling around Mali Province talking to the people in the villages and these are the key things that we have agreed that we are going to help them to achieve:
The TribeWanted Dream Foundation has already helped raise the funds to re-wire the Mali District Primary School.
This not only allows local children aged between 5-11 to learn how to use computers, but also means that the community can also run classes and a whole host of other activities at the school during the evening.
The Tribewanted Dream Foundation is governed by a group of experienced trustees and is autonomous from Tribewanted. Although the Dream Foundation is in its infancy, it already has a strong track record of both raising money and achieving its goals.
The Dream Foundations first project of raising $4000 for the electrical wiring of the local Mali Elementary School was successfully completed in the summer of 2007.
You can donate here to raise help raise funds for our valuable work!
Tribewanted Dream Foundation is the sister, not-for-profit foundation that seeks to extend the goals of Tribewanted by making a positive and physically tangible difference, especially with the communities that Tribewanted touches.
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