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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
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
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
As part of its Tourism Revenue Sharing benefits to the communities around the parks, Uganda Wildlife Authority has donated over 40 million Uganda shillings to schools in the region. With such high population density in the area, the pressure and demand for land for farming is greatly eased through education, as future generations have alternatives other than farming from which to earn a living...read full article