Bagisu / Bamasaaba Cultural Heritage Preservation
We focus on identifying, studying, documenting, preserving and practicing or use of production based and Sacred Mt Elgon / Masaaba Landsacpe environmentally conserving: cultures - traditions - customs - rituals - Lugisu / Lumasaaba Language for identity - unity - development.
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Youth including Girls Mobilization & Education
Mobilizing youths including girls through awareness campaigns and vocational training to ensure the preservation and transmission of cultural knowledge, the Sacred Mt Elgon / Masaaba Landscape Environment Conservation, Employment, Multi-sector Production, Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development
Environmental Conservation & Development
Promoting sustainable use of Mt. Elgon's resources via multisectoral production and environmental preservation for long-term community resilience.Bagisu / Bamasaaba Cultural System / Cycle, their Components, Conservation, Education & Production
Our mission is to protect the Bagisu / Bamasaaba Cultural System implemented through a Bagisu/ Bamasaaba Life Cycle of 12 Production Based Components in order of life thus:
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- Child births and naming ceremnies,
- Lumasaaba / Lugisu Language,
Male circumcision of Imbalu / Ipalu rituals,
- Marriage, Dowry Wealth and Alliances,
- Food, Cuisine and Feastivals (Maleeya / Khamalewa)'
- Agriculture, Livestock Keeping,
- Sacred Mt Elgon / Masaaba Lanscape Environmental Conservation,
- Attire & Dressing Code,
- Local Architectral,
- Arts,
- Vocationa Education / Training in Multisector Skills including Cultural Heritage,
- Belief in True God (Were / Nabende), Masaaba / Nabatwa - Nabalwa Ancestral Veneration.
Key Aspects of Bagisu Cultural Life Cycle
Exploring the integral production based rituals and customs from birth to ancestral resting that define the Bagisu/Bamasaaba way of life.
