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Friendship Camp Is Back! 🇨🇩🇺🇬🇷🇼
Our moment is here again! Whatever is happening around us, young people keep choosing resilience, peace and connections across borders. This December we’re celebrating exactly that. From 13 to 16…
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Looking For an Exciting Part-Time Job in Musanze, Rwanda?
Job Title: Gorilla Highlands Experts Office CoordinatorLocation: Musanze, RwandaEngagement Starts: 14 October 2026Job Interviews: 10 October 2026Application Deadline: 4 October 2026 Are you a Rwandan aged 18 or above who…
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New Intake: Gorilla Highlands Ambassador Training
📣 Applications are open for our second Gorilla Highlands Ambassador Training (GHAT) of 2026! Would you like to earn money as a freelance tour guide or media producer? GHAT combines…
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See You in September
This shot from the sunny beaches of Rwanda’s Gisenyi — you can see Congo’s Goma on the horizon — is our summer goodbye. Until September when our media will be…
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Mr Muzungu Boda Boda Looks Back
We cherish the interns from UCLL, a Belgian university, who help us at Lake Bunyonyi in so many different ways, each for a 6-month stint! Milan was the fifth among…
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Preet Moves, the Kigali Walking Tour Doesn’t
Preet Fast Food has moved! Kigali’s first purely vegetarian restaurant has found a nicer spot on KN 82, the same road it’s called home for over a decade. Good news…
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A Cyclist Learns to Talk: Michel’s First Walking Tour
The tour guiding side of our Gorilla Highlands Ambassador Training (GHAT) was completed last week; and what better way to mark that than to throw one of the trainees straight…
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An Artist in Search of Ugandan Aletheia
“Aletheia” means “truth” in Greek or to be more precise: that which does not escape notice, does not hide, is not forgotten; that which remains evident, the opposite of oblivion,…
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Great Yields, Terrible Manners: Antisocial Climbing Beans
The little secret about the soil here at Bunyonyi is that it’s tired, basically. Our land simply can’t cope with beans that refuse to climb, because the poor ground has…
