KWITA IZINA 2014 PROGRAMME PUBLISHED
(Posted 13th June 2014)
The tenth edition of Kwita Izina, Rwanda’s gorilla naming and conservation festival, will this year take place on Tuesday 01st of July after some scheduling adjustments announced yesterday by the Rwanda Development Board’s Tourism and Conservation Department.
Starting the week long festivities, which once again will cover the entire country, will be the launch of a Gorilla Conservation and Community exhibition in Kinigi on Monday the 23rd of June while from the 25th to the 29th a familiarization trip across all the provinces will acquaint invited guests and media participants with the range of tourism attractions beyond gorilla tracking. Among the visits will be the official launch of Basumba Primary School funded by RDB through the Tourism Revenue Sharing Scheme which has over the years provided millions of Rwanda Francs for community benefits like schools, health centres, the provision of clean water and the construction of roads and other infrastructure.
On Saturday 28th of June can visitors experience first hand the Rwandan community self help model of Umuganda, where the entire nation, apart from those on duty work, comes together to improve their immediate neighbourhoods, clean trenches, slash grass, beautify recreational parks and engage in other community projects through volunteered hands on work. On the afternoon of the same day will RDB launch a tourism exhibition and B2B meetings as visitors from the entire Eastern African region are expected to assemble in Kigali in support of the festival, which is now one of several the tourist boards of Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya organize and are pledged to support.
Also taking place in Rwanda during and after Kwita Izina will be the following events:
International Conference on Democratic Governance in Africa by the Rwanda Governance
Board and Cheney University:
Venue: Kigali
Time: June 28th – July 2nd , 2014
International Conference by Women in Parliament (WIP)
Venue: Kigali
Time: July 1st – 4th , 2014
Pan-African Youth Forum
Venue: Kigali
Time: July 2nd – 4th , 2014
Kwibohora20
Venue: Kigali
Time: Friday July 4th 2014
For more information visit http://www.kwibuka.rw/events/kwibohora
Expect live reports from on site and the tour across Rwanda and then of course from the actual naming ceremony on the 01st of July in Kinigi, where the world’s leading conservationists are coming together to celebrate Rwanda’s achievements in protecting and improving the habitat of the endangered mountain gorillas.
For more information about the festival follow @kwitaizina on Twitter or click on www.rwandatourism.com and http://www.rdb.rw/kwitizina/
RwandAir, the national airline of Rwanda, (www.rwandair.com) is offering daily connections from the entire Eastern African region, from South and West Africa and from Dubai on a daily basis and visitors from any of the African Union member states can obtain Visa on arrival, making the attendance of Rwanda’s premier conservation festival an easy proposition. See you in Rwanda!
