Yebo meets Jane Goodall
In July this year Jane Goodall visited the Ugandan Wildlife Education Centre where Yebo were staying at the time. This was part of her travels to mark the 50th anniversary of her work with chimpanzees.
Jane started her work as a 23 year old in 1960 where she began her research on chimpanzees. No-one had ever entered into this area of study, and she bravely began her work where wild chimpanzees were living. Over a period of time and patience and a very brave soul, she won the trust of chimpanzees. The work that she was doing highlighted many issues and behaviours of chimpanzees which the public became fascinated about, which still carries on.
Her work today works to protect all chimpanzees and wildlife who are endangered, and also the famous chimpanzees 
from Gombe national park, combining the needs for the local people, working together with them in sustainable development programs that bring together communities to work in partnership with them.
The Roots and Shoots program developed as a youth action program was started in 1990 and is now spread across over 100 countries.
As Dr Goodall visited the Ugandan Wildlife Education Centre in Entebbe, Uganda, we felt extremely honoured and privileged to be part of the visit. Andrew Seguya and his team at UWEC were there to greet and take Dr Goodall to their chimpanzee island, where she spent time with 2 of the chimpanzees on the island.
After the visit to the chimpanzees we were lucky enough to speak to her briefly, where we spoke about Yebo, our aims, and the Roots and Shoots program. We also presented her with a small gift of a cuddly toy chimpanzee. We were thrilled to hear her say that she would love to accept this.
A big thank you goes to the staff and organisation as a whole at UWEC for letting us be part of this.
So we must say a big thank you to Dr Goodall for giving us some of her time, we were more than honoured to meet such an amazing woman, who has had such a massive impact around the world in the work that she has been doing for the past 50 years.
By Roger Mallins, August 10, 2010 @ 9:10 am
A rare opportunity to meet such a very very rare and perceptive person.Great !!!
By isaac, August 23, 2010 @ 6:26 am
Good stuff.