Tel. +44 (0)1273 600030 (UK)
Travellers are provided with pre-trip travel advice including:
- Guidelines for culturally sensitive behaviour
- Acceptable clothing
- Rwanda history, geography and wildlife via web links and suggested reading
- Up to date advice on the political and social situation via web links
- Kit list suggestions
- Suggestions to avoid damage to environment. Local staff give advice in Cyangugu. Local staff give information on Diocesan community projects and can take people to visit them. Projects may include:
- Welfare projects - building houses for widows and orphans, health clinic, emergency medical assistance
- Agricultural projects - tree nurseries, demonstration/training farm, community farms
- Educational projects - primary schools, secondary schools, sponsorship schemes The guesthouse directly employs local staff in the restaurant, rooms servicing, grounds maintenance and management. All profits from the guesthouse go directly to support practical and spiritual development work in local communities, including the projects that may be visited as above. Goods and services are sourced in Cyangugu area wherever possible, including:
- Restaurant supplies from Kamembe market or demonstration farm
- Plumbing and electrical services from Kamembe
- Diocesan carpentry workshop – furniture
- Local metalworker - door and window frames The guest house directly contributes to the stability of the area and income to the community, by providing:
- Long term employment security to staff
- Income security to food and service suppliers
- A base for visitors to the area who then spend more money locally. These include foreign tourists, NGO staff and government staff
- A restaurant to serve local people as well as guesthouse residents Environmental policy
- The Guesthouse recycles plastic bottles, glass bottles, plastic bags and paper
- All furniture and furnishings has either been sourced locally or recycled
- A car share scheme operates in the Diocese and the Guesthouse is part of that scheme
- Milk, eggs, some meat and vegetables are sourced from the organic demonstration farm
- Electricity is sourced from the local hydroelectric power station
- Visitors are advised on careful use of water and electricity
- Publicity is largely by web site rather than leaflet to save paper is sourced from the local hydroelectric power station
- Visitors are advised on careful use of water and electricity
- Publicity is largely by web site rather than leaflet to save paper
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