In 2000, Koorinako, a retired auditor, teamed up with his wife Sally as well as Rugambwa, a retired educationist, to acquire 40 acres of land in Mukono and decided to venture into agriculture.
In 2017, Chakig Eco-tourism Centre partners, Bernard Rugambwa and Paul Koorinako decided to invest in eco-tourism after failing to make business sense out of agriculture.
Business idea
“Whenever we hosted annual meetings in Uganda, we would take trips to Jinja, Mbale and western Uganda. With about 50 people, we would spend a lot of money. That is when we got an idea to start an eco-tourism centre,” Koorinako talks about their beginning.
The Eco-tourism Centre started by hosting a three-day wildlife and zoo exhibition in conjunction with the Uganda Wildlife Conservation Education Centre (UWEC), commonly known as the Entebbe Zoo. This offered fertile ground for domestic tourism among school-going children, communities and different organisations.