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:
Reduce plastic waste and #RefillMyBottle – We are happy and excited to be part of the RefillMyBottle initiative. This is a great way to motivate people to reduce the consumption of plastic bottles for both locals and tourists.
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.
We had the privilege to have connected with the Belgium trainer in Connecting / Non-Violent Communication called Marijke D’Herde (Walk Your Talk). Marijke has a great passion in sharing the knowledge and resources she receives in the North (Western world) in order to share it with the South (Africa).
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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