On Might 22, 2025, youngsters from the Orphans of Uganda Youngsters’s Middle, an orphanage in jap Uganda that’s a part of the Bitcoin Kampala group, took a street journey to the zoo thanks partly to bitcoin donations from all over the world.
The staff 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 during which the orphanage is positioned, that something is feasible, very like Laszlo Hanyecz confirmed the world that paying for items and companies in bitcoin is feasible when he paid 10,000 bitcoin for 2 pizzas on Might 22, 2010.
“We organized this journey to present the youngsters hope and to open their minds to what’s attainable,” Brindon Mwiine, founding father of Bitcoin Kampala, advised Bitcoin Journal.
“Final yr, we began educating them to put in writing down their goals in notebooks we gave them, and after 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 turned the right technique to carry these goals to life whereas educating 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 journey, crossed the Nile, traveled by way of the capital metropolis of Kampala, explored a zoo — and tasted pizza.
“It was a day of firsts,” mentioned Mwiine, who added that it was all of the extra particular as a result of he, the assist employees and the youngsters “skilled all of it collectively as a household.”
Edith Mpumwire, a member of Blink Pockets’s advertising and marketing staff and somebody who works with the Bitcoin Kampala staff, seconded what Mwiine mentioned.
“This journey is the primary of its sort [for these children],” mentioned Mpumwire within the video embedded within the X publish above.
“Most of those youngsters 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 this time is the primary day to not solely go to the zoo, however to depart their enclosure,” she added.
Mpumwire additionally famous how the worldwide Bitcoin group is partially to thank for enabling the orphans to take this journey.
“The worldwide [Bitcoin] group 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 possibly can contribute to the Orphans of Uganda Youngsters’s Middle through the undertaking’s Geyser web page.