Charity Kilimanjaro Climb with Madaraka Nyerere and our former volunteer Andrea to support tourism development at Lake Victoria

From 20th to 27th of September, there will be a charity climb on Mt. Kilimanjaro with Madaraka Nyerere (the son of Julius Nyerere, founder of the State of Tanzania), Jaffar Idd Amin Dadah (son of the founder of the State of Uganda), and our former volunteer Andrea Wobmann from Switzerland. The idea of the charity climb is to raise funds for the development of sustainable tourism at Lake Victoria.

Andrea had been at Lake Victoria for 6 months, volunteering with Madaraka in the development of sustainble pro-poor tourism. Tourism is a major economic factor in East Africa and plays a very important role in the development of poor and underdeveloped regions. According to WWF estimates, 7 tourists give employment to one local, who can through his income feed 15 people.

Madaraka Nyerere is chairman of the “Lake Victoria Cultural Tourism Association”. You can pay a donation which will support Andrea’s and Madaraka’s projects at Lake Victoria, which include cultural tours, a tourist information centre and historical museum in Mwanza, the tourism class at St. Augustine University, a microfinance project for women, “Chief Edward Wanzagi Girls school” in Butiama, and a workshop for handicapped people who make souvenirs (Bukoba Disabled Assistance Project). 

You can download a PDF flyer in A4 size (2 MB) or folded flyer (2 MB) for background information (in German language).