GREEN THINGS WE DO
- Heat all our water, make our electricity, and power all our fridges and freezers using the sun.
- Catch all the rain water on the rocks in a 200,000 litre water tank and also use the run-off from the large roof area at the stables.
- Grow our own herbs and salads in our small organic kitchen garden.
- Buy as much locally as possible including milk, tomatoes and onions from the surrounding farms.
- Buy special vegetables that we can’t buy locally from an organic farm in Mukono district.
- Recycle our general lodge waste – turn bottle tops into funky animals, and give our empty bottles (we love Bombay Sapphire) to Paper Craft who turn them into beautiful necklaces and earrings.
- Decant all our drinking water from 20 litre bottles to avoid waste of more than 10,000 small plastic bottles a year.
- Buy all our soap from Paper Craft – it is totally natural, tested in the Netherlands and PH perfect!
- Buy all our candles from The Candle Light Foundation that was set up to help street girls find a way to earn money.
- Sell as many locally produced Ugandan crafts in our craft shop.
- Train our staff to give the best massage ever – the money from the massages supports the Leopard and Hyena project.
- Train staff from this area how to look after our horses and how to ride them.
- Use local transport to receive our weekly shopping supplies from Kampala.
- Compensate farmers for livestock killed by leopard and hyena.
THINGS WE BELIEVE IN AT MIHINGO
- Recruiting as many staff as possible from the neighbouring communities.
- Employing lots of women; they are lovely and hard working.
- Making sure our staff are happy and inspired by what they do so that you will feel it too.
- Supporting some children with their secondary education.
- Supporting the local school.
WE LOVE ANKOLE COWS
- They give us milk, yoghurt, cheese and the best home-made Mihingo ice cream ever!
- Ankole cows are incredibly beautiful and have the biggest horns in the world.
- Ankole cows are an important part of the culture of the Bahima people.