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HOW BUHOMA COMMUNITY SCHOOL BENEFITS FROM TOURISM

HOW BUHOMA COMMUNITY SCHOOL BENEFITS FROM TOURISM

The school located two kilometres from Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Kayonza Sub-county, Kanungu District survives on tourism. “Everything you see here is because of tourists.When Tourists visit our school,they leave us some omey,says Adams Agaba, the headteacher ,adding that "if it wasn't for tourism this school wouldn't be here....read full article

BWINDI COMMUNITY HOSPITAL

BWINDI COMMUNITY HOSPITAL

The Bwindi Community Hospital is situated about two kilometers from the entrance of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and provides health care to the local population, UWA staff, tourists and staff who work for the tour camps and lodges near the park. Before this hospital began operations, the UWA staff had to walk eighteen kilometers to the nearest district clinic for basic health services....read full article

BWINDI ORPHANS DEVELOPMENT CENTRE

BWINDI ORPHANS DEVELOPMENT CENTRE

The Bwindi Orphans Development Centre was started in 1998 by Mr. Byamugisha Ignatius and Ms. Baseme Bridget. These two individuals are currently serving as the Director and Coordinator – respectively - of this project. The project was born out of a need to help the orphans in the area. With the opening up of mountain gorilla tourism in the area, many of the AIDS orphans in the area had taken to begging as they had no alternative means of survival. The organisation was set up with the followin...read full article

DEVELOPMENT OF THE BATWA PEOPLE

DEVELOPMENT OF THE BATWA PEOPLE

The Batwa were the indigenous inhabitants of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, living a centuries old primitive life-style as hunter-gatherers. When the forest was gazetted as a National Park the Uganda government resettled them in the surrounding communities...read full article

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