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In business since 2008

On the remote Fijian island of Vorovoro a sustainable community is being built. A tribe is wanted.

www.tribewanted.com

Tribewanted is the world's first online travel community with a real world heaquarters, a spectacular island in the South Pacific. Members take part in the debates and voting online before heading to Vorovoro to live and help build the village alongside the local community.

The project began on Vorovoro in September 2006 when 13; out of a tribe of now over 1200 members from 35 countries, set foot on Vorovoro beach. 200 members have now been to Vorovoro with almost half extending their stays on their island home.

Tribewanted has been featured as a cover story on National Geographic, on Good Morning America, The Today Show, USA Today, New York Times and is been documented by the BBC.

You can join the tribe for $360 which gives you 7 nights on Vorovoro and all your food (the fish you catch), as well as membership online and voting rights.

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Ecological/Environmental Impact

On the island we use compost toilets, recycle, grow our own food, conduct regular clean-ups of rubbish deposited on the beach, use all waste and grey water on the gardens and use ecover cleaning products. On Vorovoro we catch the water that falls from the sky and store in tanks. We wash in the sea or with bucket showers, and we conserve what we can. We wash with natural soaps and products. Ecotricity are our heroes. They liked what we were doing and so gave us power - solar and wind - and now we have basic low-lighting, a place to charge our i-pods, and plug in our camera batteries. It's all we need. The local community are already following our sustainable lead.

Our company uses two lap-tops and 4 mobile phones which we charge via solar. We have no office anywhere else in the world!

Sociological Impact

We work in partnership with Chief Tui Mali and local fishing villages, considering the impact of each and every one of the tribe’s actions on these communities. We also support local community projects with both finance and volunteers, with guidence from sustainability experts.

Local people on community holiday in Fiji We rotate the villages (4) for different projects, so that different individuals get the chance to work on Vorovoro and earn a wage. We also employ women from rotating villages to help in the kitchen. This rotation system aids the relationship between the two islands and communities.

Economic Impact

We have employed over 100 people from the local communities on Mali, with an average of 15 working on the island at any one time, hired local boats and taxis for transport rather than purchasing our own and we buy fish, craft and materials from the neighbouring village and market.

We've donated to community projects in Mali (part of the island lease agreement includes an annual $15,000 or GB £5,000 donation to the education and village committees on top of the payment to the landowners), such as supplementing school fees and wiring the generator to the computers. Our foundation has already raised £3000.

At the end of the three years the local landowners will decide what happens to the project, they will own all infrastructure on the island.

Best Practices

The online community ensures people learn a lot about the place they are going to before they go and stay involved after they have gone. We promote and raise awareness for sustainable and eco-friendly living and travel as a real option for both tourists and communities.

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