Category: Illumineers
Stories about our youth program, previously known as “Youth Spaces”.
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Friendship Camp 2025: Bonding at Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda
Illumineers from the Gorilla Highlands region and friends from near and far — we’re coming together again! You’re probably wondering: “Who’s ‘we’?” We are breakthrough young activists from DR Congo, Uganda, and Rwanda. Gorilla Highlands Experts want to see these amazing changemakers unite on a beautiful Lake Bunyonyi peninsula, right at the edge of the…
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Better Find 18 Minutes for This (If You Are a True Team Player)
Dozens of Gorilla Highlands diehards joined hands for the latest scoop on 11 January 2025, but there are hundreds of you who still need to be updated! The below edit of the Zoom call comes with a Freeform board that you can get access to by sending us your Apple account email — or you…
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Mobility Issues? David Can’t Be Stopped!
Three years after he explored Uganda with us, David Azumbrado came back for more. This time he spiced up his travel days (and the lives of GHE Youth Spaces participants) with a presentation about using digital technologies. Once the volunteering day was ticked off, he hit the roads of Rwanda for real. He paid a…
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Judges From Dubai Decide … Beetroot for the Win!
Brigitte Ishimwe and Justine Mukandayisenga have emerged as the champions of the 2024 cohort of GHE Youth Spaces! Their Beet-Nourish Creation business most impressed our judges from Omnicom Media Group (MENA) — in the photo they are posing with the company CEO, Elda Choucair. You might notice that Elda’s attire is a bit unusual for…
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And the Top Three Teams Are … (Youth Spaces Pitch Pictorial)
Before we proceed: congratulations to Rwanda on its Liberation Day! 30 years ago, the Rwandan Patriotic Front ended the genocide against the Tutsi, and thanks to this revolution we can now proudly take you to the town of Musanze in the north of the country, right under the Virunga volcanoes … … where the last…
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2024 Youth Spaces Cohort: Crazy Cashless People
The ball is now in play! The 2024 GHE Youth Spaces cohort kicked off last weekend, with a session held at INES in Musanze. 27 participants met in a classroom on its beautiful campus with a golden statue of St John Paul II in the centre and with sweet sounds of birds chirping from the trees,…
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Who Is in the Second Crop of Youth Spaces?
This year, our call to participate in GHE Youth Spaces received many fantastic responses! Ambitious youngsters seem to be excited about the program. It wasn’t easy selecting from 56 group applications from approximately 120 individuals! We are inviting the following 30 young leaders with inspired ideas to gain knowledge and resources and contribute to our environment: Weekend get-togethers will start later this…
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Do You Have a Cool Business or Project Idea That Is Environmentally Friendly?
The GHE Youth Spaces program is back! Supported by Omnicom Media Group (OMG), the second cohort will again take place in Musanze — between April and July 2024. The program’s mission is to give the youth practical skills that lead to personal development, civic engagement and regional peacebuilding in the transboundary region shared by Rwanda,…
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OMG! Youth Spaces Get Multi-Talented Friends From Dubai!
GHE Youth Spaces will have an Arabian taste this year — or should we say a global one? This week we had a call with Alanna Turpin who leads sustainability and culture efforts at the Omnicom Media Group (OMG). Their Dubai office is eager to support Youth Spaces in 2024, with a substantial donation and…
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