Leveraging culture as a source of livelihood will ease the hostility between culture, development and a “modern” lifestyle and encourage young people in Karamoja to respect, preserve and embrace their traditions whilst also enhancing their opportunities in life.
Restless Development is implementing the cultural tourism component with the support from partner Kara-Tunga Foundation due to it’s regional experience in developing and marketing sustainable cultural tourism in Karamoja.
The Youth Motivated Innovations for Karamoja Project is a pilot program which has the overall aim of supporting young (out-school youth) people to take a leadership role in bringing transformative change to Karamoja.
Therefore Kara-Tunga has been training 4 youth groups (76 members in total) from 4 sub counties in Moroto District. Youth representatives were taken to Kenya for exposure visit (watch below video) and their groups were trained on below subject on return:
The potential of tourism in Uganda is enormous. The ‘Pearl of Africa’ is famous for its gorilla’s and chimpanzees, but has much more to offer. The active tourist can go hiking, mountaineering and mountain biking. The cultural tourist will be amazed by the numerous local traditions, customs, arts & crafts.
Kara-Tunga launches Karamoja Workshop Tours – The Karamoja Workshops are tours aimed at connecting travellers with craftsmen, two-way sharing of knowledge, improving communities livelihoods and preserving cultural heritage. Through the workshops, craftsmen are able to double or triple their income and learn more about a potential group of buyers and fellow artists.
It’s exactly three years ago that we founded Kara-Tunga as regional tourism development and promotion organisation. Over the years we have learned a lot about community tourism and have decided to standardise all our community contributions starting with the Moroto communities.
Tourism Hospitality Training in Feedback and Compliments Training – At Kara-Tunga we highly value development of interpersonal skills and have had the opportunity to collaborate with experienced facilitators like the Akiiki initiative and the last weeks with Marielle.
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Karamoja Cultural Tourism Development Program
Leveraging culture as a source of livelihood will ease the hostility between culture, development and a “modern” lifestyle and encourage young people in Karamoja to respect, preserve and embrace their traditions whilst also enhancing their opportunities in life.
Restless Development is implementing the cultural tourism component with the support from partner Kara-Tunga Foundation due to it’s regional experience in developing and marketing sustainable cultural tourism in Karamoja.
The Youth Motivated Innovations for Karamoja Project is a pilot program which has the overall aim of supporting young (out-school youth) people to take a leadership role in bringing transformative change to Karamoja.
Therefore Kara-Tunga has been training 4 youth groups (76 members in total) from 4 sub counties in Moroto District. Youth representatives were taken to Kenya for exposure visit (watch below video) and their groups were trained on below subject on return:
Exposure visit
Assessment
Photo: Theo Vos
Training sessions
Video snapshot: Karin Bridger
Recording indigenous stories of Karamojong Elders
Video snapshot: Karin Bridger
Photo: Theo Vos
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The potential of tourism in Uganda is enormous. The ‘Pearl of Africa’ is famous for its gorilla’s and chimpanzees, but has much more to offer. The active tourist can go hiking, mountaineering and mountain biking. The cultural tourist will be amazed by the numerous local traditions, customs, arts & crafts.
Kara-Tunga launches Karamoja Workshop Tours
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Karamoja community contribution standards
It’s exactly three years ago that we founded Kara-Tunga as regional tourism development and promotion organisation. Over the years we have learned a lot about community tourism and have decided to standardise all our community contributions starting with the Moroto communities.
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