Miss Tourism Uganda will represent her country in the Kingdom of Lesotho, Africa on 6 December at the Miss Heritage 2014 pageant competition.
3rd runner-up Ayishar Naguddi , the 2013 high contender for the Miss tourism crown will have the opportunity to represent the most important feature of Uganda, which is National Heritage.
Miss Heritage 2014 shall be hosted under the theme “Sustainable Heritage through Education”, where the winners shall be crowned in their heritage national wears.
Rwanda, Philippines, Uganda, Morocco, Ghana, Myanmar, Mauritius, Iceland , Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Brazil are among the 36 countries that are expected to participate.
Miss Heritage Pageant is an innovative international pageant that promotes world tangible and intangible heritage by celebrating the intelligence, integrity and personality of women, using Heritage as a tool for sustainable development.
The current Miss Heritage title holder is Shequera Grace King from Bahamas who was crowned Harare Zimbabwe.
Miss Heritage Pageant’s Vision statement runs consistent with UNESCO conventions on world Heritage in which the pageant mission statement being ‘’Celebrating Diverse Beautiful Cultures.’’
Participation is open to single and never been married women from ages 17 -28, height 1.64m. The women will represent their nations’ heritage; from the physical and personality characteristics of the people, the values, the climate, the religion, literature, the laws, the man made and none man made features, the history , the current affairs and the ideas and philosophy of their respective countries.
Ayishar Nagudi is former Uganda’s Miss University Africa representative 2012, former Miss Uganda Runner Up 2010, 1st runners-up Miss East Africa. she has the Ambassadorial Award for Best Smile for Face of Oriflame East Africa till todate and she is Miss Africa Carribean and the Pacific 2013.