Conservation Concepts

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The day-to-day schedule has not been set yet for this trip, but here are some components that will be part of the trip:

 

  • Visit the BeadforLife office, get an orientation to the projects, meet the staff, and help with a bead sale (this is when the women come to the BFL office to sell their jewelry. There is a lot of time to just hang out and interact with the beaders during the sale)

 

  • Visit people in their homes in a "slum" neighborhood to get a sense of the living conditions of many people in the world.
  • Visit the BeadforLife village in Mukono to see how life can change for people when they own their own home and have a little plot of land to grow their own food. This is an amazing opportunity, after the slum visit, to get a sense of "before and after" when people suddenly have access to some resources.
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  • Tour the AIDS clinic at the Infectious Disease Institute in Kampala and have a panel discussion with people living with HIV and health workers assisting people with HIV.
  • Safari in Murchison Falls National Park and visit to conservation project.  I try to expand the safari experience with a visit to a conservation project and a discussion with the Warden for Community Conservation. My goal is to help people make the connection between conservation and poverty. When I went over there the first time to do my fieldwork for my Masters, I was a pretty idealistic person thinking we have to save the animals and landscapes no matter what. Then the first time I sat looking at a villager who was trying to feed his six kids after an elephant destroyed his crops, my eyes were opened to the complexities of the issues.