Harness your talent!…
“Every person was created with a talent within them, strive to discover and harness your talent to soar.”
Maria Baryamujura, Founder and CEO of COBATI - Community Based Tourism Initiative is an award-winning Ashoka Fellow with over 35 years experience in sustainable tourism development, motivational speaking and women empowerment across East Africa. Her business is a community tourism service provider, bringing innovation to rural tourism. It is focused on empowering local communities near areas of high tourism potential to develop homestays and grassroots tourism attractions to tap into the tourism marketplace to improve livelihoods. She's trained over 12,000 people, 64% of whom are women, developed a network of several self-sustaining groups and homesteads practicing tourism as a business.
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