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Help change many lives in Fiji

Help local villagers in Fiji become part owners of a hotel, and change forever the lives of many people living in remote villages.

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Help change many lives in Fiji

Help change many lives in Fiji

Help change many lives in Fiji

Help change many lives in Fiji

Help change many lives in Fiji

Help local villagers in Fiji become part owners of a hotel, and change forever the lives of many people living in remote villages.

Help local villagers in Fiji become part owners of a hotel, and change forever the lives of many people living in remote villages.

Help local villagers in Fiji become part owners of a hotel, and change forever the lives of many people living in remote villages.

Help local villagers in Fiji become part owners of a hotel, and change forever the lives of many people living in remote villages.

Nick Wood
Nick Wood
Nick Wood
Nick Wood
1 Campaign |
Yasawas, Fiji
$1,552 USD 12 backers
0% of $500,000 Fixed Goal Fixed Goal
Choose your Perk

Couples massage

$25 USD
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January 2014
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Baseball Cap

$50 USD
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January 2014
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Lobster dinner on the beach

$100 USD
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January 2014
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Unlimited scuba diving

$200 USD
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January 2014
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Hotel Credit

$500 USD
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January 2014
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Hotel Credit + the other perks

$1,000 USD
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January 2014
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The background

In 2002 we built a hotel on a remote island in Fiji with a goal " to help the local indigenous population, with a clear focus of education, to be low impact to the environment, and to create a business that while making a profit, gives substantively back to the community". 

That was 12 years ago, we succeeded, in fact we have completed three projects so far, all are providing significant benefits to multiple small local island communities. 

Education, medical, housing, power systems, fuel and much more.  Being a big part of a remote community that before the project, survived on subsistence farming and fishing.

See www.octopusresort.com, www.bluelagoonbeachresort.com.fj and www.paradisecoveresort.com.fj 


What is the deal

  • We would like to start work on a 4th project which will bring support and significant benefits to another small remote island village.
  • We would like to create an opportunity this time for the local community as a whole to share in this project at an ownership level.
  • We thought we would give crowd funding a try, we plan to raise 30% of the capital to build the hotel by crowd funding, and place this share in trust for the Yasawa Island community as a whole, and we will provide the other 70% of the funding within the existing group of investors.
  • The opportunity is to have the local community to own a 30 % share and see significant profits reinvested in their community, and make a huge difference to many 1000's of people in a small rural villages on a group of remote islands.
  • We could do this project without crowd funding, but in the last 12 years we have seen may visitors to the hotels, who have after staying, contributed in significant ways, and many continue to do this, and visit again each year. We thought that maybe we could take this idea to a bigger audience.

The difference this will make.

  • For 12 years life has been very different for Naluwaki village, the village next too Octopus Resort, before the hotel, people fished, and grew cassava, and had no real income other than from occasional trips by small boat to the mainland 27 miles away across open water. The children were poorly educated, most not even finishing school past the age of 12 years. Many lived in grass huts and there was not electricity or regular water supply, and no medical support, so many people lived a short life.
  • Today the resort employ's 100 people from the village providing them with medical cover, and a weekly income. The locals also benefit from a % of the resort turnover as income for the whole village.
  • The resort with the assistance of donations from guests, also pays for all of this village's children's education from elementary school right through to college, if they have the grades, so no child misses out on the opportunity of education.
  • The resort also pays for all of the food for the elementary school's children each week from a total of 4 villages.
  • Provides boat transport to the school each week, fuel for the generator, technology.
  • The resort funds the operation of the kindergarten in the village.
  • Has built many houses in the village to assist families to move from a grass hut to a concrete home, which is much safer in hurricanes.
  • Provided the village with a generator for electricity.
  • Provides medical evacuation and medical cover for all staff and individuals in the village on a needs basis.
  • The resort helps other members of the community to start small businesses and sell crops, fish, lobster, and other things to the resorts kitchen.
  • The resort has created a marine reserve and protected the reef systems and fisheries to help create sustainable fisheries for the community.
  • A small hotel in these remote locations changes the world for 400 people in an instant.

Other Ways You Can Help

  • Even if you are not interested in crowd funding this business venture you can assist in many other ways, we are always in need of books, toys, old laptops, clothing and assistance from trained medical professionals, for example every year now a dentistry school from Buffalo NY sends a team of dentists to provide free treatment, they stay for 1 week, and people come from miles around to get something which is hard to come by, and the dentists who are graduating get a lot of real life experience, and change lives of people who really need the help.
  • Others like Colin, have built the kindergarten and a new water treatment, water supply for the village, and several bridges.
  • Others have sent things their businesses produce that can be helpful.
  • Fijian's as a people, and a community are the friendliest and most caring people you will meet, they are a caring and sharing society, with no hidden agendas, they are always striving to improve their lives, and we are always interested to meet anyone who would like to help.

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