Gulf for Good challengers will be treking to the roof Africa, Mt. Kilimanjaro at 5,895m to raise funds for children in Tanzania. Two groups will be going: 5th to 13th July 2019 and 9th to 17th August 2019.

This challenge will support two charity projects:

1) Larchfield Charity Organisation in Dar es Salaam. Founded in response to the desperate plight of Tanzanian children who have been abandoned by parents either by reason of disease and death, divorce, or other incapacity to maintain the family unit. A group of Tanzanian private citizens decided to register a childrens home and to call it, Larchfield, to serve as a happy, safe and secure environment for Tanzanian children who have no home.

The objective was to build and operate a purpose built childrens home, initially for 60 children, but phased to accommodate eventually up to 300.

As of May 2018, Phase 1 has been completed and has opened its doors to 60 children with 15 staff are on board: 1 centre manager, 1 cook, 6 mamas, 6 dadas, and 1 driver.

www.larchfieldkids.org

2) The Foundation for African Empowerment (FAE). A not-for-profit nongovernmental organization dedicated to fighting poverty and improving the quality of life in the most underserved Tanzanian communities.

Enjoro Primary School is a public school currently with 720 students and 11 qualified full time teachers located at the Enjoro Maasai Village in northern Tanzania. The school is facing an acute shortage of classrooms, with students often studying in overcrowded classrooms, outdoors under trees or having shortened school hours to share the space. The classroom to student ratio is currently 1 to 144 students, whereas this should be 1 to 45. The school has three complete and two semi-complete classrooms which are shared by 720 students. This year the school expects to enrol between 120 to 150 new students who will intensify the shortage if there are no new classrooms.

We are partnering with FAE to build three classrooms (each one is USD13k), which will give an additional 200 students access to quality and consistent education and will bring the classroom to student ratio down to 1:90.

www.thefaeafrica.org

Each participant is tasked with raising a minimum of AED5000 to support these charities and, together, change the lives for the children benefitting from these projects.

While we love Just Giving, please note that 4% of the funds you donate here will go to Just Giving in credit card and platform fees. Please donate in other methods when you can:

1. Cash/Cheque - please contact the person you are sponsoring to arrange. Cheques should be written out to the "International Humanitarian City"

2. Bank Transfer can be made to the following account - please put "Kili - NAME" as a reference, with the name being the person you are sponsoring. Please also alert admin@gulf4good.org that you have done this transfer so we can share the good news with the participant and ensure safe receipt.

Account: INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN CITY

Account Number: 3707679336203

Bank Name: Emirates Islamic Bank

Bank Address: Jebel Ali, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Swift code: MEBLAEAD

IBAN: AE840340003707679336203

Please note that 10% of your donation will go to the International Humanitarian City's emergency preparedness and response work and 15% will go to Gulf for Good to support its own sustainability.

This event is approved by the Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department, license number 2289.

Learn more about Gulf for Good here: www.gulf4good.org