GET INVOLVED
Join Community-Led Work in the Way That Fits You
Give, partner, learn, volunteer, or connect your institution to priorities defined and led by the Dago community.
Participation Begins With Community Priorities
Friends of Dago welcomes supporters, universities, foundations, companies, faith communities, families, volunteers, and diaspora partners. The starting point is not “What can I do?” but “What is the community already leading, and how can I strengthen it responsibly?”
That approach helps ensure time, money, expertise, and relationships reinforce local institutions rather than create parallel projects.
Our Partnership Standard
Community first. Local priorities guide engagement.
Contribution with humility. Partners bring resources and skills while remaining learners.
Long-term value. Engagement should strengthen systems, relationships, and local capacity.
Safe and responsible participation. Engagement involving children, young people, community stories, learning visits, or direct program participation may require screening, orientation, supervision, consent, partner approval, or other safeguards before participation. Review our Safeguarding & Child Protection and Media, Storytelling & Consent standards before engaging directly with community members.
Choose the Right Engagement Path
Give
Support community-defined priorities across education, nutrition, livelihoods, youth leadership, health, housing, sanitation, and long-term capacity.
Best for: individuals, families, diaspora supporters, and sponsors ready to give.
Next step: choose the fund or pathway that best matches the kind of impact you want to support.
Partner
Foundations, universities, companies, nonprofits, and other institutions can align funding, expertise, research, learning, or program support with community priorities.
Best for: institutional partners seeking a defined, accountable collaboration.
Next step: share your goals, timeline, resources, and area of interest through the inquiry form.
Volunteer & Contribute
Contribute time or expertise in ways matched to actual needs. Opportunities may be local, remote, or community-based and are coordinated around defined roles rather than unsupervised projects.
Best for: people with specific skills, experience, or availability to contribute.
Next step: tell us what you can offer; opportunities are matched to current needs and are not created simply because someone wants to volunteer.
Dago365 · Learn With the Community
Dago365 is being developed as a community-led immersion and service-learning pathway where participants prepare before arrival, engage around defined community priorities, learn across cultures, reflect, and remain connected after returning home.
Best for: universities, learning cohorts, institutions, alumni groups, and responsible global learners.
Next step: inquire early; participation will depend on community priorities, preparation, timing, and program readiness.
What Ethical Engagement Looks Like
Global engagement should benefit the community first. Participants are contributors and learners—not saviors. Local knowledge matters. Consent and dignity matter. Projects should fit existing priorities and leave stronger local capacity behind.
Before: prepare, understand context, clarify the community-defined role.
During: listen, collaborate, respect local leadership and culture.
After: reflect, report responsibly, stay accountable, and sustain relationships.
Follow Stories & Updates
Follow verified community stories, program milestones, learning, and updates from Friends of Dago as the refreshed public story archive grows.
Start With a Conversation
Tell us who you are, what you hope to contribute or learn, and where you see alignment. We will connect the conversation back to current community priorities.