Kyanjuki handicrafts women’s Association
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Kyanjuki Handicrafts Women Association is a group of local women (farmers) living on the foothills of Rwenzori mountains around Kalembe park gate. The women converge at the base camp where they own a handicrafts shop targeting the tourists who go to the Rwenzori Mountains. Women in the Rwenzori Mountains have very little room on benefiting from mountaineering tourism yet they play a very big role on household livelihoods in the community. Tourism being one of the key income generation activity, the women find a big challenge over depending on men for financial and other forms of support.
The group demonstrates women empowerment alternative sustainable livelihoods related to tourism through sale of handicrafts products. The shop is a display of assorted beautifully developed arts, crafts and usable items made out of both local and recycled materials. The product range include Baskets, shopping bags, assorted jewelry from beads and other materials, textiles and other small items suited to both travelers and local people in the area.
Besides the crafts, these women engage in both group and household faming. Other activities include traditional dance performances, microfinance and craft making demonstrations to the tourists. The location of this shop at the gate of the trekkers’ hostel, which also acts as the base camp to Kilembe gate, makes the shop ideal for your memorable souvenirs that also changes the life of a local woman.
Activities and experiences:
- Handicrafts sales
- Crafts making workshop
- Traditional dance performances
Highlights
- Buying a local craft from the source as an ideal savior of your Rwenzori experience
- Participating in the local energetic moves and dances during the traditional dance with the local women
- Learning how to weave the local baskets and other crafts as you learn other local skills of living in this mountainous community.
- Making own African outfit at the local tailor from the fabrics designed by the women.
Responsible Travel
- Most of the crafts are made from local items and materials. This ensures that most of the tourism money is spent on the local community.
- Promotion and conservation of the local culture through the dances and traditional handicrafts, directly supports environment conservation.
- Incomes from tourism and microfinance supports local economic empowerment for the local people, especially women who get a chance of being involved in the local tourism value chain.
How to get there:
We are located about 13km from Kasese town, at kyanjuki in Kilembe division. The shop is on the right at the gate of Rwenzori trekking services, where trekking starts. You can contact the group on the following details for direction, to book any activity or making an appointment before you arrive.
Contact us to book:
Tel: +256 787361816 / +256 778621214
Email:
Or contact UCOTA at;
Tel: +256 772657700
Email: info@pearlsofuganda.org
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