Kigali Rwanda's capital is bagging millions of dollars in tourism simply by keeping it clean. Every last Saturday of the month is dedicated to cleaning the city in a day that has come to be termed "muganda". Everything is halted no wedding no partying and every residents puts on their cleaning gear to tidy their beloved city.
This practice has caught the eye of a UK blogger and this has since raised the profile of the city as a tourist destination for UK travelers.
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| clean street in Kigali pic by Conde Nast |
Condé Nast Traveler, a UK luxury and
lifestyle travel magazine says despite the horrific 1994 genocide
Rwanda’s effective leadership has managed to turn around the nation.
Travel enthusiasts will have to see mountain gorillas in their beautiful
high-altitude forests, its lakes, and Kigali, its capital city.
Presently the city earns $49m yearly in tourism but government has designed a strategy that will help to earn over $150m
annually from international conferences by year end.
Bulawayo has lesson to take home from because there is nothing more fun than getting a paycheck for a chore you just have to do.
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| green Kigali pic by Travelmag |
The image of genocide that lingers in our brains when we speak of Rwanda is promptly being uprooted from us. Murekatete a Rwandese who works as a street cleaner and
resident of Kimihurura a suburb of Kigali city. She has vivid memories
of how city dwellers, including “literates” used to disregard hygiene,
until 1990s.Open defecation would not exempt city
attractions while domestic waste were dumped in water channels or in
idle plots, to be carried downhill and pollute water reservoirs.
Now the city is full of new people who are passionate about the hygiene of their city . Thanks to the UK magazine the city is in the top 15 places to visit simply for its love of cleanliness.
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