{"id":4339,"date":"2025-07-23T00:19:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/orphanage-in-uganda-that-runs-on-bitcoin-celebrated-bitcoin-pizza-day-with-a-road-trip\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T00:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:19:29","slug":"orphanage-in-uganda-that-runs-on-bitcoin-celebrated-bitcoin-pizza-day-with-a-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/orphanage-in-uganda-that-runs-on-bitcoin-celebrated-bitcoin-pizza-day-with-a-road-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Orphanage in Uganda That Runs on Bitcoin Celebrated Bitcoin Pizza Day with a Road Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

Orphanage in Uganda That Runs on Bitcoin Celebrated Bitcoin Pizza Day with a Road Trip<\/a><\/p>\n

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On May 22, 2025, children from the Orphans of Uganda Children\u2019s Center<\/a>, an orphanage in eastern Uganda that\u2019s part of the Bitcoin Kampala<\/a> community, took a road trip to the zoo thanks in part to bitcoin donations from around the world.<\/p>\n

The team that helps fund and run the the orphanage chose to take the trip on Bitcoin Pizza Day<\/a> to show the orphans, many of whom had never left the village in which the orphanage is located, that anything is possible, much like Laszlo Hanyecz showed the world that paying for goods and services in bitcoin is possible when he paid 10,000 bitcoin for two pizzas<\/a> on May 22, 2010.<\/p>\n

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22\u202205\u20222025 \u2013 Orphanage Bitcoin Pizza Day <\/p>\n

We dreamt to leave our district on a bus to the zoo at the end of last year, you all made it happen\u2026. <\/p>\n

Special Thanks to @blinkbtc<\/a>, @studentofbtc<\/a>, @travelwbitcoin<\/a> who sponsored us for the day
And our forever patrons @Bitcoinbeach<\/a>,\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/Ol6XC52bcv<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Bitcoin Kampala Uganda (@BitcoinKampala) July 21, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWe organized this trip to give the children hope and to open their minds to what\u2019s possible,\u201d Brindon Mwiine, founder of Bitcoin Kampala, told Bitcoin Magazine.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year, we started teaching them to write down their dreams in notebooks we gave them, and when we asked what they wished for at Christmas, their answers were simple: visit the capital, see animals, and travel,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cBitcoin Pizza Day at the Entebbe Zoo became the perfect way to bring those dreams to life while teaching them about Bitcoin.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Bitcoin-enabled \u2018Day of Firsts\u2019 in Uganda<\/h2>\n

Mwiine also noted that this was the first time the children had taken an extended bus ride, crossed the Nile, traveled through the capital city of Kampala, explored a zoo \u2014 and tasted pizza.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a day of firsts,\u201d said Mwiine, who added that it was all the more special because he, the support staff and the children \u201cexperienced it all together as a family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edith Mpumwire, a member of Blink Wallet<\/a>\u2019s marketing team and someone who works with the Bitcoin Kampala team, seconded what Mwiine said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis trip is the first of its kind [for these children],\u201d said Mpumwire in the video embedded in the X post above.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of these children are from eastern Uganda [and] they stay in a small house located in Bugiri. They have never left Bugiri, so, for them, today is the first day to not only visit the zoo, but to leave their enclosure,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Mpumwire also noted how the international Bitcoin community is partially to thank for enabling the orphans to take this trip.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe global [Bitcoin] community contributes to their livelihood [and] here we are taking them on a road trip [where] they get to see a mini national park, Lake Victoria and very many animals.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can contribute to the Orphans of Uganda Children\u2019s Center via the project\u2019s <\/em>Geyser page<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

This post Orphanage in Uganda That Runs on Bitcoin Celebrated Bitcoin Pizza Day with a Road Trip<\/a> first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by Frank Corva<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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