Category: 25 Years of Treasures
This collection of stories from our history serves as a temporary landing page as we build the digital archive to support the Edirisa Treasures exhibition at Lake Bunyonyi. The articles below belong to the Edirisa’s Full Story compilation and include links to several video materials.
Our Stories:
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How Edirisa Changed My Life, and Theirs (Kitanga 2009)
This is the ninth instalment of a weekly series that marks 20 years of Edirisa and 10 years of the Gorilla Highlands Initiative. Click here for Part I. 2009 was a pivotal year for me and Edirisa UK as it was the summer that I first visited the Special Needs Education Centre (SNEC) in Kitanga…
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Thank You, Thank You, Thank You (Bunyonyi & Kabale 2008)
This is the eighth instalment of a weekly series that marks 20 years of Edirisa and 10 years of the Gorilla Highlands Initiative. Click here for Part I. My Edirisa story begins with Learn From Africa (see Danger Dave’s story about 2006), the volunteer orientation that brought interesting visitors to my village. I would call…
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Miles of Smiles (Bunyonyi & Kabale 2007)
This is the seventh instalment of a weekly series that marks 20 years of Edirisa and 10 years of the Gorilla Highlands Experts. Click here for Part I. Year 2007 was that breakpoint year for me, when I decided that the Western world just doesn’t have that much to offer to better my state of…
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Risky Adventures & Learning From Africa (Bunyonyi 2006)
This is the sixth instalment of a weekly series that marks 20 years of Edirisa and 10 years of the Gorilla Highlands Initiative. Click here for Part I. Imagine losing everything, your memories, your souvenirs, your little life fragments of ten years … It was 2012 and I was packing up to leave Sydney for…
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Lake From the Lake (Bunyonyi 2005)
This is the fifth instalment of a weekly series that marks 20 years of Edirisa and 10 years of the Gorilla Highlands Initiative. Click here for Part I. Hello, all you wonderful humans! For those of you who do not know or remember me, I am the absolutely lovely daughter of one Miha Logar and…
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New Era — Double So (Kabale 2004)
This is the fourth instalment of a weekly series that marks 20 years of Edirisa and 10 years of the Gorilla Highlands Initiative. Click here for Part I. The year was 2004 and a completely new era was underway, not only in terms of Edirisa’s adventures but for me personally, for it became clear that…
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First Volunteers & Pet Pests (Lake Bunyonyi 2003)
This is the third instalment of a weekly series that marks 20 years of Edirisa and 10 years of the Gorilla Highlands Initiative. Click here for Part I. Are we really going to Uganda for 12 months?! It did look like that … Return tickets for exactly one year were bought, Lariams were in our…
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Shockingly Humble Beginnings (Lake Bunyonyi 2002)
This is the second instalment of a weekly series that marks 20 years of Edirisa and 10 years of the Gorilla Highlands Initiative. Click here for Part I. On my second day at Uganda Martyrs University a collision occurred. A “front of the library, books dropping” kind of affair, ha ha. Little did I know…
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It All Starts Here (Uganda Martyrs University 2001)
In 2021 we celebrate 20 years of Edirisa and 10 years of its offspring, the Gorilla Highlands Initiative. We will take you through our colourful history with a weekly story, year by year, and we can’t start anywhere else but on the equator. Here, at Uganda Martyrs University, Edirisa was born as a student club…
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