Organization and structure

In our projects we work with three "groups of people":

• Local people
• Thai volunteers
• International volunteers

We want these groups to interact, get to know each other
and work together. All the groups are equally important.

As organization DaLaa has a structure of:organizers, members and volunteers (click on the links to see what their role is).

Decision making
There will always be decisions to make. In the process of decision making we want to listen to the opinions of our members, the local people and the volunteers. All these people together give their opinion, ideas and information to the organizers. The group of organizers makes most decisions.

Dalaa is a Non Governmental Organization (NGO)
We are not related to the Thai government, a political party
or any other government. We make our own decisions and take our own responsibility. Where possible we want to work together with local officials, but we will never be a part of the political system.

Dalaa is a nonprofit organization. It is not our aim to earn or to gain money. Of course we need some money to keep the organization going, to support projects and activities. That's why we ask a fee from the participants of our projects and activities.

The fee for participants is used for:

• 50% goes to the project the participant attends;
• 30% is for staff members, work camp leader, administrational cost, and office rent;
• 12% goes into our Member Fund (to organize member activities and to support members to go abroad.);
• 5% goes into out Project Fund (for extra support to projects and to survey for new projects);
• 3% we save for unforseen expenses.

We are open about our financial status. At the end of each year we make an overview to explain how the money was used. If we have money left, we will use this for extra support of local activities and for (some of) our Thai members to join voluntary camps abroad.