Day 14 Kibale National Park and Kasiisi School
Today, after an early breakfast, we started our journey to Kibale National Park for a wildlife walk. Mixed feelings and expectations were raised by many of the volunteers, as it was going to be their first experience in an African National Park. At the park, we were divided in to two groups with different tour [...]
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Day 6 A Day of Work
16. July 2010
Today we all woke up a little bit later than usual and then recharged our energy for the rest of the day ahead. The Web team have had trouble finding a place to setup the satellite internet connection at the Hostel, so we transferred to the UWEC to work from there. We started working on the [...]
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21,610 minutes into the Uganda Expedition
16. July 2010
We are now half way through the expedition; it already feels longer than 14 days working together in Uganda. For many of us this experience has been a learning process mixed with adventure and hard work. Many of the volunteers did not know what to expect before their arrival to this east African country. Uganda has [...]
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CSWCT’s Educational Vision
13. July 2010
The 2010 Ugandan expedition education team believe it is important for people to recognise the work of CSWCT. The work the sanctuary does isn’t based solely around the daily care giving of the rescued Chimpanzees. The work the sanctuary does is in fact much more than that. It is an education centre, [...]
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An Appreciation, Understanding and Education about Chimpanzee Conservation
13. July 2010
July 5th is a day we’ve all been waiting for its where our journey on the Great Primate Handshake really begins. It is here we start getting down to the nitty gritty! After clambering into a local long boat we ventured out on Lake Victoria and after a two hour slightly bumpy journey full of anticipation [...]
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Day 12 A Journey to the West of Uganda
12. July 2010
After an amazing day of adrenalin rushes we all woke up very early with our bodies cover in bruises from the white water rafting. We had breakfast around 6am and started our journey to Kibale National Park, home to several troops of habituated chimps and the highest concentration of primates in the world. The trip took [...]
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Day 10 – White Water Rafting
10. July 2010
Today many of us decided to go white water rafting on the Nile. I think we supposed that the experience would be relatively tame, but we could not have been more wrong. We split into two groups; in one raft was myself, Laurence, Alex (who had, less than an hour previously, dipped her head into [...]
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Day 8 – The Handshake World Cup
9. July 2010
Today the Handshakers were given a rare gift – a lie in for those who wanted (or needed one). The cook team served some excellent porridge with hot chocolate powder in it to get us all up to working standard for the day, and against all odds almost everyone went back for seconds. The morning was [...]
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Day 7 – Snake & Reptile Park
8. July 2010
Today the Handshake travelled to a local snake and reptile park to visit an inspirational young man, who has started a conservation project rescuing injured and confiscated snakes and reptiles. The park was not a primate conservation project, nor did it care for, or raise awareness of their demise in Africa – so you may be [...]
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Day 5 Hands on Projects
5. July 2010
Today as usual we woke up early to tackle all our projects. After breakfast we did an integration activity that blows many people’s mind and it was great fun. “I found the game interesting, at the beginning it seemed very easy but it was actually more complicated that what I thought” Ben We were divided in groups [...]
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16. July 2010
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