Hello everyone here, I hope you are keeping well and now I am finally back after sometime without being active here. I am sharing with you some of the new photos and adventure moments we had yesterday. I have been working with one of the tourism organizations that work closely to Batwa formally known as pygmies that are known to have lived in the forest for their rest of life. They were finally evicted from the forests by the government since they were hunting down wild animals for meat and skins and it was done to conserve wildlife and promote tourism.
Guests who come to Mgahinga national park in south western part of Uganda are mostly doing gorilla trekking, golden monkey tracking or hiking the volcanoes.
They are also recommended to visit the nearby communities where the evicted people; the Batwa now live. They do their traditional dances, show medicinal herbs they used before eviction and you also get a chance to join them in their handcraft making. This is their major source of income such that they can get food,clothes and pay school fees for their children. I visited them with Cathy and Jude who were able to make these school kids happy with books,pens and pencils. While having a talk with them, they said they would use a book for different subjects since they had no other alternatives.
Their education is a tough struggle a campaigned with lack of enough food since they entirely depend on the little income they get out of their handcrafts. We encourage buying something from them to support them.
My dream would be teaching them other means of earning a living like agriculture and tailoring and knitting and support their learning children in schools.
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