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Our Latest News & Stories
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Cape Town: Third Time, Slovenian Charm
See the ship bathing in the sunset light over my left shoulder? Not far from it lies the Cape Town International Convention Centre, where your ML Rwebandira took to the panel…
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Four Tiny Troublemakers, Gone
Remember Sammy, our resident rat-chaser? She’s been having quite the adventure lately. It all started with the former official cat of Edirisa on Lake Bunyonyi. He’d swapped his cushy lakeside…
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Travelling Groups Just Got a Better Deal
Diana and Sasha are relieved — the rate card is ready at last! They’ve spent countless hours poring over costing spreadsheets and debating what’s fair and what will work. The…
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The Quinoa House of Musanze
The Afroquin team has found a home! Illumineers alumni Maxime Kabanda (2023 cohort) and Emmanuel Rangiryayo (2024 cohort) now rent a house in Musanze, and have even obtained some tea-packaging…
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Our Website: Wanna Look In?
An 8-minute tour of everything that matters on this website — and what’s coming next. You may also like: Hot Hot Kampala (Volunteer Life Part IV)Kampala, Here I Come!Just One…
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Friendship Camp: Where Connections Take Root
In the Gorilla Highlands, some encounters do not end when the tents are packed away and the campfire fades. They continue to open unexpected paths. Just over five months ago,…
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Pocket Treasure’s Bumpy Road to 20 Resellers
This hasn’t been easy, our friends. A tiny booklet can cause huge headaches. More than half of what we received from our Kampala printers had to be discarded. The cases…
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Walking the Congo Nile Trail: A Day-by-Day Hiking Video Resource
CĂ©sar Niyonkuru has seen a great deal during his decades as a hiking guide on Rwanda’s Congo Nile Trail. When he was introduced to Rinda Scheltens, he worried early on…
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24 Hours to 25 Years — Join Us Online
This frame from our Treasures exhibition looks back a quarter of a century, to the moment when Edirisa — the mother of the Gorilla Highlands idea — was unveiled to an equatorial…
