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BODEC Activities

This video was kindly provided by Frieda, and shows the children singing and dancing.

Bwindi Orphans Development Centre teaches the children important life skills and social skills

• Entertainment which involves teaching songs, dances and drama that carry educational messages about HIV/AIDS and conservation.
• Training basic hygiene and sanitation.
• Training the children in handcraft designing, wood carving and marketing locally made handcrafts.
• Holding sensitisation sessions with the children, about how to live and behave socially in any given community.
• Training in agriculture and other income generating activities. Poultry keeping, piggery, rabbit and goat rearing and bee keeping.
• Children entertaining visitors especially tourists who come to Bwindi impenetrable National Park.
• Children selling handcrafts to visitors through exhibitions after every performance.
• Sensitizing the children about HIV/AIDS, STIs (sexually transmitted infections) STDs (sexually transmitted diseases) and adolescence.
• Giving special attention to young girls through straight talk programs about early pregnancies, infections and abstinence.