Category: Illumineers
Stories about our youth program, previously known as “Youth Spaces”.
Our Stories:
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We Will Be Building Trust
Daniel “Emeka” Nwachukwu’s educational background is fascinating: he left urban Nigeria to add a Bachelor’s business degree in rural Rwanda to the computing diploma he had obtained at home. His observations of Rwandan students — the main target group of our Youth Spaces — proved invaluable when Misigaro (in blue) sat down to draft the…
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Youth Spaces: Is There Finally Something on the Horizon?
March is around the corner, and five Norwegian students will soon volunteer for Youth Spaces — they are even coming with funding for the program! Yet we do not know if the Gorilla Highlands Experts Organisation (our non-profit wing) will officially exist by then … We had a general assembly in June 2022 and started…
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T-Shirts With a Message About Us
The new Gorilla Highlands guide t-shirts came from Kampala to Kabale on a night bus yesterday, and immediately got onto the bodies of our Lake Bunyonyi team. It was the first day of Mama Bena’s Bonus, one of our top canoeing and hiking activities in Uganda. #GHTrails on the shirts refers to that aspect of…
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Our Christmas Camp was just the START, 2023 we are COMING!
A New Year is almost here, and hopefully you have been having a great time with family and friends this Holiday season. For us at Gorilla Highlands Experts, Christmas began with our camp on 21 December at Cyuza Island on Rwanda’s Lake Burera … We socialised, enjoyed fresh salads and hot coffee, drove and paddled…
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GHE Christmas Camp: Free of Charge & Full of Action!
Hello, ladies/gents, girls/boys!!! After an epic registration process Gorilla Highlands Experts (GHE) is back in the biggest possible way, inviting you to: What? GHE Christmas CampWhere? Cyuza Island, Lake Burera, RwandaWhen? 21-23 December 2022For Whom? 15-30 Year-OldsCost? zero, zilch or nothing Oh yes, all you will have to do is get yourself to Musanze Town…
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Honestly, It’s Been an Insane Six Months!
Have you noticed us going quiet? Have you explained that away with a simple, “the pandemic is over and they must be very busy”? You were right. Or did you maybe think, “Probably there isn’t much new to report”? Well, you were correct again! The last few months have seen Gorilla Highlands Ltd (our travel…
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Which GHE Project Will You Pick?
Gorilla Highlands Experts now exists for real! 10.5 years after the Gorilla Highlands idea was born in southwestern Uganda — as a humble project by Edirisa — we finally have two proper entities: • Gorilla Highlands Limited as a tour company (this one has been in existence for a couple of years and is the current…
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Hey You, Ready to Start Shaping Our Region?
Friendly greetings from the guy who needs your energy, brains and presence. I’m back with exciting news! Hopefully, you and your loved ones are doing great? You might be curious about how far along we are with GHE Hubs, the physical and virtual spaces to bring together youngsters from Rwanda, Uganda and Congo? We will…
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New Chapter Begins: The Hubs Project
Gorilla Highlands Experts know that wildlife can only thrive if the human populations around national parks prosper as well — and we feel it’s high time we do something beyond responsible tourism. But what could best boost peace, security, economic and social development in the Gorilla Highlands region? Well, we have one big idea to…
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