serving the Sierra Leone community worldwide

• What if tourism could help poorer nations in the world?
• What if it helped develop a local community, improved the biodiversity of the environment
• and brought cultures together?
• What if we could return from our vacation a changed person?
• Your best bet - TRIBEWANTED … in Sierra Leone

These are the words of Filippo Bozotti speaking on NBC News, who with Ben Keene heads up the exciting concept of cross cultural community living - with TRIBEWANTED Sierra Leone.

Four years ago, Ben Keene started a unique social experiment bringing “tribe members” to the Fijiian island of Vovoro where an eco-community was physically built from scratch between visitors from the world over and the island’s locals. And so TRIBEWANTED was born.

In brief, this original innovation in such worthwhile vacations became an enormous success having brought over 1,000 “tribe members” to Volvoro’s shores, resulting in over $1 million of sustainable community development projects. Today, four years on, tribewanted.com has over 10,000 registered users.

And 1st October this year sees Keene and Bozotti launch TRIBEWANTED SIERRA LEONE on the pristine beaches of JOHN OBEY, located on Freetown Peninsula at $450 per week per person.

In Bozotti’s words “Initially, there will be … well … nothing; aside from basic composting toilets and a fresh water well - and you have to bring your own tent”.

However, the location just happens to be the untouched, squeaky-white-sand John Obey Beach bathed in all year eighty degrees sunshine, in a wonderful setting where the river meets the Atlantic Ocean, with folks from all over the world coming to work together with local village fishermen (population 352), building from scratch the first eco-community resort on Sierra Leone’s beautiful Atlantic coast.

What can a “tribe member” expect?

Together with the villagers of John Obey, “tribe members” will build earth bag eco-domes using innovative sustainable building techniques from Cal Earth. They will develop a permaculture garden and farm, water harvesting, sustainable fishing, composting toilets and solar power; even building their own wind turbine, using only local material.

On any given day “tribe members” can:-

• Learn how to carve a canoe
• Weave a traditional blanket
• Learn the local language, arts, crafts, music and culture
• Set out at dusk with the fishermen to catch fresh lobster
• Take a canoe upriver in the lush rainforest to see alligators, monkeys, numerous other animal species, wonderful birdlife, and all to the background of the exquisite sound of the wild
• Teach at a FAWE school (Forum For African Women Education) for an afternoon; leaving a book or two behind for the school library
• Work in microfinance for a day
• Or just build a bonfire on the beach at dusk, drink local palm wine and fall asleep to the sound of the waves under a blanket of stars

Tribewanted looks to be a sustainable community - sustainable for the environment, for food production, for clean energy production and sustainable financially. All revenues generated are re-invested into local community development. It will be a partnership between “tribe members” and the local John Obey village; working together and learning from each other.

Sustainable tourism, Eco-tourism, Volun-tourism; there are many terms used to describe what Tribewanted is doing. The Tribewanted model can be replicated in many other countries - it can be the future of tourism. The goal is to cherish and celebrate local community, to create employment and opportunity, instead of exploitation. These beaches belong to Sierra Leone; they should help the people of Sierra Leone. This new form of sustainable tourism protects local resources and bio-diversity instead of destroying them.

For a week, two weeks or months at a time, “tribe members” experience an alternative way of living; less based on competition, consumerism and material success. They return home more aware of the impact their lifestyle has on their carbon footprint, perhaps more enlightened about what’s truly important in life.

Most of the above is taken from the words of Tribewanted founders Filippo Bozotti and Ben Keene

To learn more and become a “tribe member” for a week, two weeks or more -
see TRIBEWANTED website www.tribewanted.com

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