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CrayFish, a fish specie in form of a scorpion is caught in Lake Rutoto formerly known as ‘Nkugute’ located in Rubirizi District along Bushenyi-Kasese Road.

The lake shaped like a map of Africa, is one of the mysterious fifty-two crater lakes in Queen Elizabeth National Park, according to Asiimwe Sowedi, a fisherman at Nkugute, the lake is situated beneath mountains like Kantungu, Maramagambo, Rwemitagu, and Ruraama.

Asiimwe says this type of fish is the most common in the lake apart from Tilapia and other types of fish which Asiimwe and others rely on and are able to raise at least Sh20,000 on a good day of fishing under their fisheries Group called Engaara.

According to Erisa Arinaitwe, the Assistant Fisheries Officer at Rutoto Sub-County, the CrawFish is a delicious product highly consumed by Asians in Uganda and a few Ugandans.

“CrayFish is highly consumed by the Chinese in Kampala, it survives in swampy and isolated areas with cold water, and has so far been discovered in Lake Bunyonyi and Lake Nkugute. It has a potential market in Asian countries like China, Korea, Japan Malaysia among others,” he said.

However, there is still a lot of research being carried out by the government on this fish specie. It seems the crayfish quite like it in Africa because they multiplied into East Africa.

In the Lake Bunyonyi area, they actually left the locals a little overwhelmed. They aren’t part of the traditional diet, they were initially just seen as a nuisance & only used as an abundant source of livestock feed or fish bait.

Commonly known as the Louisiana crayfish and also known as the red swamp, the crayfish, according to the National Geographic News, are widely distributed in lakes and other bodies of water throughout Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, and Egypt, Zambia, Seychelles, and Mauritius.

As part of connecting with communities, Bravo Shoes Community Support Organization always tours different areas of where our children come from, to appreciate the beauty of Uganda and also train our children to connect with nature and appreciate life and our environment.

By Author Yesigye Brian

We didn’t know that Sam Bright Muhindo is an ardent fan and a player of Ludo. It is a board game in which players advance counters by throwing dice. He couldn’t help going back to one of his favorite games after catching up with hommies playing the game.

The popularity of Ludo is only compared to football, in Bwera, Sam and his oldies could afford a real blue dice and the rest was a piece of box paper with a pen drawn lines numbered in ascending order, 1 to 5 and 16 plastic bottles for all the players.

As Sam was winding up his game, his siblings were into the last phases of organizing to go to Atlas Modal Primary School, thanks to Ben Gavin. Sam’s siblings Ronnet Bambu 12 and Brighton Bwambale  3 year -old boy got the opportunity to step into school thanks to Sam’s popularity.

At their home, before they could set off, Bravo Shoes Community Support Organisation founder, Yesigye Brian Bravo called for support from all the organization’s followers to come on board to support Sam’s family.

“We plan to construct a very nice simple house for Sam’s family and we would wish to come back here when Sam and his siblings have a house better than this every time they come back from school,” he announced.

Inside the house, Sam was busy taking his sister and young brother into hygiene lessons and going through all the school materials sponsored by Ben Gavin. The materials included suitcases, blankets, bedsheets, school bags, new clothes, Ariel, shoe polish, tooth blushes, and detergents.

Others included a mattress, a bucket, sandals, a mosquito net, bars of soap, uniforms, and a pair of Bravo Shoes.

In the queue was Raymond Thembo 12, who Muhindo blessed with a chance to go back to school and also checked in at Atlas Modal Primary School.

According to Biira Juliet, Thembo is Muhindo’s best friend and the two used to go and dance at village weddings.

“Am so thankful for Sam Bright, he chose his friend because they normally go out to dance at weddings. I also thank Bravo Shoes Community Support Organisation for giving us this opportunity, I am over the moon,” she said.

Upon reaching the school, Muhindo, his siblings, and a friend Thembo were welcomed with a dancing challenge.

The Head Teacher, Zephania Muhindo received his new students with a promise to improve them by giving them the best.

We wish them all the best in their education!