Category: Illumineers
Stories about our youth program, previously known as “Youth Spaces”.
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In Photos: Pioneering Volunteer Adventure in Rwanda & Uganda
Today’s story will be the last for some weeks. Our home country Rwanda begins the annual commemoration of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi tomorrow. With GHE Youth Spaces — the core of the adventure presented in 10 images — we try to play our part in building a nation and a transboundary region where…
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28 Youth Spaces Applications Came In
We owe you a little update: by the deadline — 27 March — we had 28 business/project ideas submitted for the Youth Spaces pilot program. Each of them was sent in by a team of 2-3 youngsters and since we can’t accept more than 30 people, a rigorous selection process follows … On 17 April…
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Apply for GHE Youth Spaces Here!
Please click on this link to go the GHE Youth Spaces application form. [PAST DEADLINE] Pilot Program Outline Youth Spaces is a core program of the Gorilla Highlands Experts (GHE) organisation that will be piloted in 2023. The program’s mission is to give the youth practical skills that lead to personal development, civic engagement and…
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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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