The Great Primate Handshake – Volunteer in Africa, working to conserve monkeys and apes through film and educational content production

Day 5 – CSWCT Website Discussions

Written by Ale Olano

4. 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 [...]

Days 2 and 3 – Warming Up

Written by Kiwi

3. July 2010

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We’ve had a few comments asking what happened to days two and three and I’m afraid to inform you that I believe both blogs have been lost somewhere in Alasdair’s complicated computer matrix and now have to be rewritten by a lowly Handshaker instead of our great blogger Alex; so apologies in advance for any [...]

Welsh 3 Peaks Challenge

Written by Alasdair Davies

11. April 2010

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This message was sent to us by Eleanor, a volunteer joining this summer’s Ugandan expedition. She is training for the Welsh 3 Peaks Challenge on the 30th May 2010 and we’d like to wish her the best with her fundraising activities and will be sharing her experience with you here on our website. **************************************** Dear All Thought I [...]

Myende Drama Competition

Written by Jessica Shouse

3. August 2009

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Our team woke just before the sun peeked her face out from behind the horizon to the sound of chimpanzee vocalizations this morning. There was excitement in the air as the handshakers savored the pancakes that David and Bethan had prepared. Today, we would be traveling to an island on Lake Victoria to see the [...]

Traveling to Kibale

Written by Jessica Shouse

3. August 2009

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Yesterday was our first official travel day and we rolled out of camp at 5:45 am, before the sun had risen to warm and brighten the day. Everyone was excited about our 12 hour journey across southern Uganda to Kibale National Park. We passed the hours chatting with one another, taking turns sampling each other’s [...]

Summer University Link-Up

Written by Alasdair Davies

30. July 2009

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On Tuesday 28 July the Handshake Education Team facilitated a live link-up with West Wales Summer University. The education team: Nicola Merret, Nicola Skilling and Ben Gething, headed by Kirsty McQueen, gathered around their computers in Entebbe, Uganda to link with a research method class from the Summer University Programme at Lampeter University. The students, at Lampeter, [...]

July 29th: A Photographer’s Perspective

Written by Jessica Shouse

30. July 2009

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Our relocation was successful and by yesterday evening the team was happily cooking off the truck and assembled in a circle, seated atop camping stools chowing down on beans and vegetables. I wanted a Margarita so bad I could taste it, but the warm beer was still a welcome refreshment after a hot day of [...]

Life inside a Ugandan home

Written by Lisa Davies

29. July 2009

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Tuesday night after a hard days work and a productive one too, we packed all our bags up, all of our kitchen equipment and got back onto NOX. Steve very happy that now once again he was in the drivers seat and ready to go again on our travels, only this time it was just [...]

The Ugandan Handshake Team

Written by Kate Smith

29. July 2009

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Directors: Alasdair Davies, Laurence Hall Project Co-ordinator: Gaynor Tribe Education Co-ordinator: Kirsty McQueen Film Team: Laurence Hall (Team Leader), Fiona Harrington (Team Leader), Bethan Williams, Gemma Coggins, David Rosberg, Sophia Woodward, Eileen Keegan, Katie O’Halloran Education Team: Kirsty McQueen (Team Leader), Nicola Merrett, Nicola Skilling, Ben Gething Web Team: Alasdair Davies (Team Leader), Jonathan Walsh (Team Leader), Conor McGrath Anthropology Team: Gaynor Tribe (Team Leader), Laurence Hall (Team [...]

Kennedy Secondary School

Written by Kate Smith

29. July 2009

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“This is Kennedy Secondary School, you are very welcome, feel at home” Timothy Bwana, teacher Kennedy Secondary School, just outside Entebbe, is a beneficiary of the Ngamba Island outreach programme. Silver, head of education at Ngamba, used to teach at Kennedy and he came back today to show some of the children a documentary provided by the [...]