Category: Our People
Our Stories:
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Emma’s Gorilla Tracking Field Report
Hello members! I hope this finds you well, l am called Emmanuel Harerimana, the Gorilla Highlands Expert from Volcanoes National Park! My job is the one of a park guide and I have the honour of visiting mountain gorillas about three times each week. To keep Rwanda’s most valuable animal safe in the pandemic, I…
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Rwebandira’s 27 Hours of Your Sweet Memories
The end of this video gives me goosebumps. The words are spoken by Festo Karwemera, the Bakiga cultural warrior who passed away last year… Karwemera nicknamed me Rwebandira two decades ago, after knowing me for only a short time. Yet he couldn’t have been more prescient… He translated the name for me as a “trailblazer”…
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Meet Best Chefs of Rwanda, Uganda and DR Congo
There’s magic in the air … and intoxicating smells … as sudden clouds of smoke appear and then disperse above workstations. Perhaps even some droplets of sweat trickle down under their hats… Four gentlemen and one lady are fighting for the right to be called the region’s best. It’s the afternoon shift of the 2019…
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How to Get Top Chefs Onto a Remote Lake
It’s a funny life, ain’t it? Here I am, organising a cooking competition — but being too busy to taste many of the savoury treats. And here I am, still, having my dearest friends assembled for Lake Burera Active Cruise, a special adventure on a lake I love — but staying behind at the hotel…
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Adventures with Izy: Behind the Scenes, from the Heart
In this very personal blog, Isabelle Masozera explains the background of her family move to a new town.
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The Return of The Enya
I can’t believe it’s already 2019! WOW! Talk about writer’s block, am I right?! Mine was a massive one… You haven’t heard from me for TWO YEARS!!! Like what is this? How could my life have been so boring with nothing to write about??? But boy have we changed that since Christmas… I’ve finally spent…
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A Story I Couldn’t Write
I had a decision to make … a life-altering decision, as a new life would begin.
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Too Good
Amused, bewildered or annoyed, this morning Uganda woke up to the new reality of social media taxes. Figuring out a way to pay those ridiculous daily 200 shillings (or circumvent the system) had to take priority over choosing a Sunday service outfit that your pastor may notice… This white Ugandan (OK, birders would probably call…
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Rwanda Makes Uganda Jealous, the West Furious
Harsh words, but justified. Instead of thinking marketing or business, they think charity and politics.
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