On Could 22, 2025, youngsters from the Orphans of Uganda Youngsters’s Heart, an orphanage in japanese Uganda that’s a part of the Bitcoin Kampala group, took a highway journey to the zoo thanks partially to bitcoin donations from all over the world.
The workforce that helps fund and run the the orphanage selected to take the journey on Bitcoin Pizza Day to point out the orphans, lots of whom had by no means left the village through which the orphanage is situated, that something is feasible, very like Laszlo Hanyecz confirmed the world that paying for items and companies in bitcoin is feasible when he paid 10,000 bitcoin for 2 pizzas on Could 22, 2010.
“We organized this journey to offer the kids hope and to open their minds to what’s attainable,” Brindon Mwiine, founding father of Bitcoin Kampala, advised Bitcoin Journal.
“Final yr, we began educating them to jot down down their desires in notebooks we gave them, and after we requested what they wished for at Christmas, their solutions had been easy: go to the capital, see animals, and journey,” he added.
“Bitcoin Pizza Day on the Entebbe Zoo grew to become the proper solution to carry these desires to life whereas educating them about Bitcoin.”
A Bitcoin-enabled ‘Day of Firsts’ in Uganda
Mwiine additionally famous that this was the primary time the kids had taken an prolonged bus trip, crossed the Nile, traveled via the capital metropolis of Kampala, explored a zoo — and tasted pizza.
“It was a day of firsts,” stated Mwiine, who added that it was all of the extra particular as a result of he, the assist workers and the kids “skilled all of it collectively as a household.”
Edith Mpumwire, a member of Blink Pockets’s advertising and marketing workforce and somebody who works with the Bitcoin Kampala workforce, seconded what Mwiine stated.
“This journey is the primary of its form [for these children],” stated Mpumwire within the video embedded within the X submit above.
“Most of those youngsters are from japanese Uganda [and] they keep in a small home situated in Bugiri. They’ve by no means left Bugiri, so, for them, right now is the primary day to not solely go to the zoo, however to go away their enclosure,” she added.
Mpumwire additionally famous how the worldwide Bitcoin group is partially to thank for enabling the orphans to take this journey.
“The worldwide [Bitcoin] group contributes to their livelihood [and] right here we’re taking them on a highway journey [where] they get to see a mini nationwide park, Lake Victoria and really many animals.”
You may contribute to the Orphans of Uganda Youngsters’s Heart by way of the mission’s Geyser web page.
