What we do
Twelve objectives, one purpose: make Uganda’s heritage useful, transferable and valuable.
Preserve and document
Heritage is only safe when it is recorded and shared.
- Documenting traditions, contemporary cultures, literature and stories of African peoples.
- Gathering and disseminating cultural and hereditary information about many societies.
- Collecting and exhibiting culture-themed items.
Celebrate and recognise
Culture lives when people gather around it.
- Organising cultural galas and festivals that promote African talents and cultures.
- Organising events where ordinary people with extraordinary lives are discovered and recognised for their deeds in their communities.
- Promoting the spirit of community service among different societies.
Teach and train
Language carries a people’s way of seeing the world.
- Promoting and teaching Uganda’s indigenous languages.
- Organising indigenous language reading and writing competitions.
- Organising and facilitating trainings that promote culture and culture-based talents.
Travel and live well
Know your country, and look after it.
- Promoting domestic and cultural tourism within our communities, to discover the natural endowment of the Pearl of Africa and the goodness of its people.
- Promoting sustainable livelihoods through Burungi Bwansi initiatives.
- Promoting Uganda as the best place to stay on earth.
Burungi Bwansi in practice
Burungi Bwansi describes sustainable living practices that are traditional to different communities in Uganda. These five commitments are how we put them to work today.
- Tree plantingMassive planting to restore land and shade.
- Plastic wasteEnd-to-end waste management, from collection to disposal.
- Organic foodGrowing and eating food from healthy soils.
- Renewable energyChampioning clean, local energy sources.
- Good neighbourNeighbourliness, a tradition across Uganda’s communities.
Uganda, in pictures
The land, soils, flora and fauna of the Pearl of Africa.