On Might 22, 2025, youngsters from the Orphans of Uganda Children’s Center, an orphanage in jap Uganda that’s a part of the Bitcoin Kampala group, took a highway journey to the zoo thanks partially to bitcoin donations from around the globe.
The crew 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 through 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 two pizzas on Might 22, 2010.
“We organized this journey to provide the youngsters hope and to open their minds to what’s potential,” 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 after we requested what they wished for at Christmas, their solutions have been easy: go to the capital, see animals, and journey,” he added.
“Bitcoin Pizza Day on the Entebbe Zoo grew to become the right strategy to carry 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 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,” 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 Wallet’s advertising crew and somebody who works with the Bitcoin Kampala crew, seconded what Mwiine stated.
“This journey is the primary of its type [for these children],” stated Mpumwire within the video embedded within the X submit 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, right this 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 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 highway 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 Middle through the challenge’s Geyser page.
