Recycling Green Waste into Compost - Moroto is located in one of Uganda’s hard to reach areas and most of fresh foods are imported from distant towns. The German NGO called GIZ supported us through an exposure visit and practical training on how to grow foods and best practice to recycle green waste into compost. [...]
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Recycling Green Waste into Compost
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Kara-Tunga launches Karamoja Workshop Tours
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. Travellers get an unique [...] More -
Bringing mountain bikes to Mt Moroto in Karamoja
How one Whistler resident is working with the Tepeth community of Mount Moroto and local social enterprise Kara-Tunga Tours to enhance livelihoods through developing mountain bike tourism on the mountain. Steve Andrews comes from one of worlds most famous mountain bike areas called Whistler in Canada and joined the Tour of Karamoja team in 2018 [...] More -
Staff training Connecting Communication
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). In 2017 she visited us in [...] More -
Banning plastic bags for tourism in Karamoja
Ban plastic bags for tourism in Karamoja: During World Earth Day on April 22nd, we went out to clean the streets of our municipal in Moroto town and the trails on Mount Moroto to raise awareness and launch our principles for Responsible Tourism in Karamoja. The most important lesson learned was the impact of the polythene [...] More -
Food distribution vulnerable community members
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Distribution of seeds to Mount Moroto Community
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Campaign for Responsible Tourism in Karamoja
To raise awareness on conserving our natural habitat and cultural heritage we designed a set of principles for Responsible Tourism in Karamoja. To launch the Responsible Tourism Karamoja principles, we took a day to collectively clean the trails on Mountain Moroto and our municipality in town and discuss the with our team. As a result [...] More -
Mount Moroto Community Tourism Development
Since our humble beginnings, we've have been engaged in Community Tourism Development in the Karamoja region and Mount Moroto in specific. We learned by doing and we're blessed to have gained experience and build a team with the capacity to continue building our dream: sustainable enhancement of community livelihoods through tourism. We decided to share [...] More -
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 [...] More
