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The land belongs to the youth group who run it. The youth who run the center are paid a salary by the youth group and the money saved is used to support such development activities of the group. All profits are used on community development projects including running a resource center, a tree nursery that donated trees to the community, donating scholastics and clothes to the children, women education and other skills trainings. The center plans to start a child scholarship project by the end of 2007.
We organise garbage collection and recycling, aimed at improving hygiene. The showers are refilled with manually heated water and dry compost toilets are used. Trees are planted for natural forest regeneration. Support comes in form of markets for the agro produce or crafts, skills training and knowledge exchange, employment, donation of clothes and other scholastic equipment to the children. Sometimes tourists donate to the children’s groups, some of whom perform the traditional dances.
Guests provide voluntary labour such as training, planting a tree, exchange of useful skills with groups of the center during training or community meetings. Money from guests supports training skills and volunteers support the center. We also practise sustainable organic handicraft production for culture conservation. We employ local guides, dancers, craft makers and trainers, storytellers, blacksmith, traditional healer.
Travellers are invited to participate in different cultural activities so that they can experience more than the ordinary tourists. The community has about one hundred families of the same tribe (Bakonzo people speaking Lhukonzo Language). Our walks also cross into other villages.
This holiday is part of the responsibletravel.com and Conservation International Community Based Tourism Programme to support and promote community based tourism ventures that offer significant conservation and development benefits to local communities. To see other community based tourism holidays and find out more about the programme click here.
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