10-day mountain climbing expedition Hike4Life in Uganda

January 6 2010 – By Flavia Lanyero – Daily Monitor:  She was not even in her mother’s womb when her family – together with at least 60,000 other Indians – was ordered to leave Uganda within 90 days in 1972.

Hike4Life group UgandaBut for Jazzmin Jiwa, now a 30-year-old journalist based in Canada, the historical bond that her family has with Uganda could not be broken even by those circumstances.

Late last year, Ms Jiwa was one of 42 tourists from Europe, USA and Canada who travelled to Uganda for a 10-day mountain climbing expedition dubbed Hike4Life and facilitated by the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN).

For Ms Jiwa, unlike most of the other tourists, the Hike4Life tour – which ended on January 2 and was the first in eight years to be held in Uganda – was more than just a mountain climbing experience. She says her family’s historical attachment to Uganda made the tour feel more like a homecoming.

More … http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/

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  1. Great achievement by our young Ismailies.
    Please let me have the names of the people in the Photograph.
    Thanks

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