Our Values: the principles we'll build our community with

Tribewanted Sierra Leone’s goal is sustainable development through community tourism.

ECONOMIC
All the revenues generated, after a booking fee, will be used for local employment and development. All the profits will be reinvested into the John Obey community, as well as in microfinance and education through Shine On Sierra Leone and the Knadira Group.
We look to provide above market rate wages, after extensive research in the region, our full time wage will range between $60 and $100/month for the local staff at launch.
Our financial models account for a 10% increase in salary yearly. We also will provide a goodwill to the John Obey community of $6.000/year.
Upon commencement of the development, we will provide composting toilets and a fresh water well to the John Obey village.
We will also create a child sponsorship programme at the John Obey primary school or sponsor a mother’s microcredit.
We look to hire a balanced mix of men and women, depending on their trade expertise.

ENVIRONMENTAL Tribewanted’s goal is to leave as small of a carbon footprint as possible, and to improve bio-diversity in the eco-system.
We will begin development with an EIA (environmental impact assessment), we will minimize our use of energy and only use solar and wind power, we will build all our “eco-domes” using cutting edge, environmentally friendly practises and will use sustainable permaculture methods to grown all our crops, on our farm, to harvest water, for composting toilets and grey water showers, and for sustainable fishing.
SOCIAL: Local employees will benefit from all the same benefits that foreign employees and “tribemembers” will receive. This includes food, and health related issues. It is the mantra of Tribewanted that while everyone works together on all projects, the only ones cleaning the toilets will be the Tribewanted managers.
We look to train the local workforce to take over crucial positions within one or two years. This includes permaculture, earth-bag building, clean energy management and managing the Tribewanted village as a whole.
Thanks to the relationships of our local partner, Michel Sho Sawyer, we have not yet run into any serious corruption issue and we have been able to function at a relatively quick pace, considering Sierra Leone is one of the poorest countries in the world with very little infrastructure.
Local corruption has also never been a problem, we have spent weeks working on local sensitization with the local community and will spend more time once the project commences. This includes corruption practices, health standards, safety standards, and environmental standards.
After the success in Fiji, the goal of Tribewanted is to successfully implement a second environmentally sustainable, financially sustainable development project.