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| Adaklu Mountain is an inspirational sight and one of the most impressive mountains in the region. In the past, travelers would randomly arrive at any one of the nine villages that surround the mountain and ask whomever they met whether they would lead them to the top. In 1996, the Adaklu Mountain Tourism Committee (AMEC) was organized by the nine Adaklu communities in conjunction with BRIDGE's executive director. The committee's mission is to conserve the mountain and create economic opportunities for Adaklu's communities by promoting and managing tourism activity around the mountain. Listen to the libation that was poured after the first official customer arrived in 1998. |
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Each village provided one representative to sit on AMTC, and the members have since held bi-monthly meetings which has created an ongoing inter-cummunity dialogue.The committee members mobilized their communities and accomplished a number of important tasks in building the basic infrastructure for a tourism site: • Built a Visitor Center to receive guests. |
| Today there is a modest but steady stream of tourists visiting the site. This has encouraged the community to continue investing themselves in the project taking added precautions to protect the environment. For example, the chieftancies have prohibited the practice of careless bush-burning and put sanctions on farmers who negligently allow fires to get out of control and spread. The tourism committee is presently working to develop new opportunities to generate income for the community. Some of their present projects include: The Kente Project
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