On Could 22, 2025, kids from the Orphans of Uganda Kids’s Heart, an orphanage in jap Uganda that’s a part of the Bitcoin Kampala neighborhood, took a street journey to the zoo thanks partially to bitcoin donations from around the globe.
The group that helps fund and run the the orphanage selected to take the journey on Bitcoin Pizza Day to point out the orphans, lots of whom had by no means left the village wherein the orphanage is positioned, that something is feasible, very like Laszlo Hanyecz confirmed the world that paying for items and providers in bitcoin is feasible when he paid 10,000 bitcoin for 2 pizzas on Could 22, 2010.
“We organized this journey to offer the youngsters hope and to open their minds to what’s doable,” Brindon Mwiine, founding father of Bitcoin Kampala, informed Bitcoin Journal.
“Final yr, we began instructing them to write down down their goals in notebooks we gave them, and once we requested what they wished for at Christmas, their solutions had been easy: go to the capital, see animals, and journey,” he added.
“Bitcoin Pizza Day on the Entebbe Zoo grew to become the right approach to deliver these goals to life whereas instructing them about Bitcoin.”
A Bitcoin-enabled ‘Day of Firsts’ in Uganda
Mwiine additionally famous that this was the primary time the youngsters had taken an prolonged bus experience, crossed the Nile, traveled via the capital metropolis of Kampala, explored a zoo — and tasted pizza.
“It was a day of firsts,” stated Mwiine, who added that it was all of the extra particular as a result of he, the assist workers and the youngsters “skilled all of it collectively as a household.”
Edith Mpumwire, a member of Blink Pockets’s advertising and marketing group and somebody who works with the Bitcoin Kampala group, seconded what Mwiine stated.
“This journey is the primary of its variety [for these children],” stated Mpumwire within the video embedded within the X submit above.
“Most of those kids are from jap Uganda [and] they keep in a small home positioned in Bugiri. They’ve by no means left Bugiri, so, for them, at the moment is the primary day to not solely go to the zoo, however to go away their enclosure,” she added.
Mpumwire additionally famous how the worldwide Bitcoin neighborhood is partially to thank for enabling the orphans to take this journey.
“The worldwide [Bitcoin] neighborhood contributes to their livelihood [and] right here we’re taking them on a street journey [where] they get to see a mini nationwide park, Lake Victoria and really many animals.”
You may contribute to the Orphans of Uganda Kids’s Heart through the mission’s Geyser web page.
