WE ENJOYED HOSTING YOU!

We were privileged once again to host a team of students from Gorteburg University, Sweden from 12th to 19th May 2014. We visited families, the children had great fun learning Swedish children's songs and playing with their visitors, visited a Batwa settlement near Mgahinga forest; the stories are endless but here goes.....

We watched the Batwa perform their cultural dances. These are a minority peaple group in Kisoro that previously lived in the forests around Kisoro district in Uganda and in D.R Congo. When the forests were gazetted into National parks, they were sent out without being compensated or given alternative land for cultivation. they now live as squatters on other peaples land, working for them to survive. They, however have a very rich cultural heritage. They are experts at understanding the flora and fauna around the forests, they know which plants can work as medicinal herbs and which for food. In the forests they had lived as hunters and fruit gatherers. it was fun as they demonstrated to us how they killed the animals during hunting.