Community Tours in Rwanda - Dancing Pots
The ‘Dancing Pots’ experience offers visitors a unique opportunity to learn about and interact with a community of settled and forward-looking Batwa – or ‘historically marginalized people’ in the words of the government of Rwanda. Located close to Gisenyi, the members of Abatigayubuke are harnessing their famous traditional skills of pottery and performing arts to make a living and to serve as an exemplary Batwa community that is fully integrated in the area’s social life and structures.
- Main partners: Abatigayubuke cooperative, local authorities
- Number of direct beneficiaries: ca. 25 cooperative members + 10 non-members
- Number of indirect beneficiaries: 140
- Community percentage of profit sharing: at least 70%
- Material community benefits: ca. 35 income-generating opportunities, community development fund, education fund, agriculture fund, sale of pottery products
Prices:
- 4-7 persons: $80/person (from Nyanza)
- 8-10 persons: $70/person (from Nyanza)
- 11-14 persons: $60/person (from Nyanza)
- 15-30 persons: $50/person (from Nyanza)
- Special reductions for NGOs and universities
- Variations: special tailor-made tour packages from Kigali, pottery workshop, dance and music workshop, other activities in the Gisenyi area
