Charity trek up Mount Kilimanjaro, community project
How this holiday makes a difference
Environment
This trek up Mount Kilimanjaro with community project offers you opportunities which few charity challenges offer. Instead of just ‘visiting’ Tanzania as a tourist and trekker, a spectator of sceneries and events, this tour will provide you with the chance of helping refurbish an impoverished school, which will benefit the community in which you are staying.
We work to very rigorous environmental sustainability standards, such as ensuring the accommodation is are vetted to ensure that they limit pollution, practise water management, recycling of glass and paper, and the sourcing of materials and foods locally.
We also ensure that the hotel workers and support staff benefit from ‘staff friendly’ employment practices, and that all staff earn a fair wage for a fair days work. Therefore we can guarantee that the money you spend directly benefits local people.
Participants are given information on responsible tourism including information on minimising water usage and the use of environmentally safe detergent. Where possible we use direct flights to our destinations. The worst carbon emissions are emitted during take off and landing, so the fewer landings and take offs, the better.
Community
As well as the physical challenge of climbing Africa’s highest peak, you will spend two days helping out at school near Moshi, in the foothills of Mt Kilimanjaro. The children at the school are often the children of the guides and porters who will assist your climb up Kilimanjaro. This enables you to help entire families - by supporting the school and thus the children who learn there and by trekking Kilimanjaro you are enabling us to employ local guides and porters to provide a wage for them to send their child to school in the first place.
We ensure that the project is undertaken with sensitivity and ensure that our help does not take away any potential employment from local people. Our participants are briefed on appropriate ways of gift-giving whilst at the project to ensure that any gifts they bring are distributed fairly and at a time considered appropriate by the school staff, and in an appropriate manner.
Whether you choose to pick up a paintbrush, construct some shelving or spend time with the children helping them with some simple English lessons – you can be assured that you and they alike will have a fantastic time and make lasting friendships!
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