On Might 22, 2025, youngsters from the Orphans of Uganda Children’s Center, an orphanage in japanese Uganda that’s a part of the Bitcoin Kampala neighborhood, took a street journey to the zoo thanks partially to bitcoin donations from world wide.
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 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 two pizzas on Might 22, 2010.
“We organized this journey to offer the kids hope and to open their minds to what’s attainable,” Brindon Mwiine, founding father of Bitcoin Kampala, instructed Bitcoin Journal.
“Final yr, we began educating them to jot down 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 grew to become the proper approach 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 kids had taken an prolonged bus experience, crossed the Nile, traveled by 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 kids “skilled all of it collectively as a household.”
Edith Mpumwire, a member of Blink Wallet’s advertising staff and somebody who works with the Bitcoin Kampala staff, seconded what Mwiine mentioned.
“This journey is the primary of its form [for these children],” mentioned Mpumwire within the video embedded within the X put up above.
“Most of those youngsters are from japanese Uganda [and] they keep in a small home positioned in Bugiri. They’ve by no means left Bugiri, so, for them, at present 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 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 possibly can contribute to the Orphans of Uganda Youngsters’s Middle through the challenge’s Geyser page.