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Thanks for taking the time to visit our page. Please support Temba and Elly who climbed Kilimanjaro to raise money for mosquito nets for children in Tanzania. On 6 November 2010, they did the round trip in 24 hours & 45 minutes - an amazing achievement!   Donations have been spent on 855 mosquito nets so far!  Tumaini for Africa Orphanage, Arusha - 25 nets Faraja Orphanage, Arusha - 9 nets SOS Children's Village, Arusha - 133 nets Huruma Children's Trust Orphanage, Arusha - 35 nets St Gabriel Children's Home, Arusha - 25 nets Christ Hope Orphanage, Arusha - 51 nets Matonyok Parents Trust, Olasiti, near Arusha - 100 nets Samaritan Orphanage, Moshono, Arusha - 29 nets Bethlehem Centre for Children, Moshono, Arusha - 11 nets Abandoned deaf children, Sekei - 10 nets Yakini Orphanage - 120 nets Msandaka Disabled Children centre – 19 nets Njia Panda Deaf Children centre – 48 nets Msandaka Deaf Children centre – 80 nets Upendo Orphanage – 47 nets Tuleeni orphanage – 51 nets Tunahaki orphanage – 19 nets Msamaria street children centre – 43 nets Temba: Having seen kids as young as five weeks old die of malaria and having a personal experience of my sister dying of malaria, I felt I had to do something. By climbing Kilimanjaro in 24 hours, I can use my experience as a Kilimanjaro porter and now a tour guide to raise awareness of how easily malaria can be prevented by nets. My aim is to raise US$ 15,000 (£10,000) to provide nets to 3,000 orphans in Tanzania.1 treated net costs about US$ 5 (£3.30).   Hazel: I worked in a school in Tanzania in 2007 and saw how children live in communities where AIDS and malaria are a constant threat to survival. While I was there I met Temba and Elly. Temba has since set up an NGO called SiChildren to help orphans. Any money he raises, he uses to buy mosquito nets, food, and other provisions. He's working really hard to help children in need in his country and I really hope that you’ll support him! See <a href="http://www.sichildren.org/">http://www.sichildren.org</a> for more details.   Richard: I met Temba in 2009 when we climbed Kilimanjaro in aid of Help For Heroes and a school near Arusha for orphans and special needs children. Temba's team are very committed to helping SiChildren (they give a percentage of money raised from every climbing group they take). We spent an afternoon in an orphanage with Temba; without his help these children would just be left to fend for themselves. Temba’s challenge will stretch him to his limit and on achieving it he will put SiChildren on the map where it is so needed. 'Never, Never, Never give up.' (Winston Churchill)   The Tanzania Development Trust has kindly agreed to support us by forwarding any donations to SiChildren.   Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate - we raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity. So please dig deep and donate now!   Off-line donations received so far: 12/7/10 Vicky Hackman from USA 40 US$ £26 13/7/10 Uros & Kaja from Slovenia 60 Euro £50 27/9/10 Amani Afrika 300 US$ £190 17/10/10 Corinne Webb from Australia 500,000 TZS £200 29/10/10 Amani Afrika 50,000 TZS £20 31/10/10 Shelly O'Keefe & Kyllie Beeson from USA 10,000 TZS £4 31/10/10 Sophia Bahrke from Germany 10,000 TZS £4 2/11/10 Raymond Sangawe from Tanzania 50,000 TZS £20 22/11/10 Amani Afrika 60,000 TZS £24 22/11/10 Innocent Kawiche, Tanzania 30,000 TZS £12 10/12/10 Amani Afrika 200,000 TZS £80 14/12/10 Corinne's family in Tanzania 150,000 TZS £60 3/1/11 Amani Afrika 303 US$ £195 3/1/11 Introducing Africa Safari Company 60 US$ £38 3/1/11 Deshni Gopal, Yong Ly, Vivian Lo, Thirona Kamat, Shaun Mossop, Sharlin Gopal, Sreeni Raghavan, Kim Kamat 80 US$ £51 7/2/11 William Twigg & teachers/students from St Constantine's International School, Arusha 325,195 TZS £135 Ewa & Robert Dudczak, Teresa & Dariusz Yanik, Poland £115   Here's Temba's account of the climb on 6 November 2010: After signing the permit, we started the climb at 1:00pm from Marangu gate, it took 1hrs and 45minutes to get to Mandara hut, and then we proceeded to Horombo hut, we arrived at Horombo hut at 6:00pm, we spent about 10 minutes signing the permit again before proceeding to Kibo hut where we arrived at 11:39pm, after reporting to the ranger office at Kibo hut, he showed us a room where we slept for 2hrs, we woke up at 1:40am and got ready for the summit, it took 6hrs to get to Uhuru peak, on the way weather was really bad, I had very bad headache and was loosing coordination, Ellly as well but he was coughing a lot, but at 8:02am we finally managed to make it to Uhuru peak, we spent few minutes taking pictures starting with me, but unfortunately before I started taking Elly's picture the battery of the camera went out of charge, so we started descending straight from Uhuru to the gate via Kibo hut, Horombo hut, Mandara hut and finally we made it to the gate on 7th Nov. at 1:45pm! We could do it in 23hrs round trip if the weather was not so bad, it was raining on the way to Kibo as well but we had rain gear. So we finally made it in 24hrs and 45minutes round trip! I am really happy for this :)

24-hour Kilimanjaro climb to help children in Tanzania

24-hour Kilimanjaro climb to help children in Tanzania

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