How Maroon Projects volunteer programs works with community and NGOs
All project must be community driven or at least community based. Emphasis would be place on ensuring a healthy, open relationship and an established balanced partnership with the local community. We seek to formulate development program agreements, with interested groups and the community as a whole.
Registered with us are technocrats who are familiar with the participatory process. Their assignment to the project will be from the inception and they will be incorporated into the community team to the end and will involve interacting with the community to formulate and guide the project.
Regular meetings as well continuous dialogue with local communities, development agencies and government officials allow for transparency and ongoing Public Relations development. We will support community through the following areas:
Facilitating the development of a strategy, action plan for the duration of 1-3 years. See our online process.
Assist in the development of a online project management & reporting. See our geodevelopment strategy for details.
Work with the community/NGO team to prepare for the volunteer program.
Advertise for the volunteer assistance.
Assist with the coordination and logistics of packaging the visits together with the community.
Assist in providing the necessary technical assistance for the development of projects.
Orientation & initiation of project for volunteers and community
Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting of Projects.
To develop various concepts of "Sustainable-Tourism" for the benefit of local community development
What do we offer the agency or community?
We first seek to will work with the project agents or/and the community to do the following:
Facilitate the formulation of partnerships between stakeholders
Facilitate community's assessment of community attributes and resources; History, culture, sites, playfields, community centers, shops, craftsperson musicians, dancers, cooks/restaurants, transportation services.
Facilitate community's identification of the project/projects
Facilitate the formulation of a Project Management Team to carry and host the project
Facilitate community's formulation of a structured program
Orientate community on international Traveler's Code for visitors coming to the community with the community
Facilitate community's formulation of guidelines for volunteers on issues such as Cultural Understanding, Social Impacts and Environmental Impacts of the community
Facilitate the formulation of the roles to be fulfilled in the hosting
Facilitate community's determination of the needs and cost of the hosting of the volunteers
Identify training needs; tour guiding, first aid, food preparation, etc.
Advertise and provide volunteers to help them achieve their goals.