BWINDI TRUST ORPHANAGE FOUNDATION (B.T.O.F)
Bwindi Trust Orphanage Foundation is a non-profit community organization located in Nteko, a small remote village in Kisoro district in the far south western Uganda at the border edge of Bwindi impenetrable national park, a home for endangered mountain gorillas and near the D.R.Congo border. Nteko and the surrounding villages is overwhelmed by the povert
y, HIV/AIDS related illnesses and malaria which have led to an increase in the number of orphans and vulnerable children in the area. Nteko is also a home to the marginalized population of Batwa communities who lost their ancestral home forest in 1991 when Bwindi forest was being gazzettted into a national park. As a result rapid growing in the number of orphans, vulnerable and the needy children in the area, Katutsi John a local community conservationist, a teacher by profession and a tour guide/Driver was moved by compassion when he saw the plight of these children around him. He founded Bwindi Trust Orphanage Foundation in 2017, with the purpose of helping the disadvantaged children who desperately need help and support. The Foundation's ultimate aim is to find ways of giving orphans, vulnerable and the marginalized Batwa children the means for a better life through the provision of full care facilities such as education, food, clothing, shelter, health care and any other attention they deserve. The Foundation also aims to promote projects that improve the livelihood of orphans, widows, the Batwa and the entire community in which they live. These projects includes:
Vegetable growing
Organic mushroom farming project
Piggery project
Rabbit keeping project
Chicken rearing project
Craft making project
Bee keeping project