Kilimanjaro Kidz Education Foundation

Kilimanjaro Kidz Education Foundation

Our Highest Aspirations

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On March 13th, many of us will spring our clocks ahead one hour at the start of daylight savings time.

Though we will still have plenty of cold and wintry weather to come here in Colorado, that extra daylight feels magical. We will start our mountain hikes, plan our summer trips and treks and continue our journey toward goals we set at the beginning of the year – like getting 22 new sponsors for 2022!

believe in your aspirations

Big 3 — as Amy, Dawna and Stephanie affectionately call ourselves – are looking forward to a hike across the continental divide and back with some of our friends/co-sponsors of Kilimanjaro Kidz Education Foundation. We’ll have plenty of time together to brainstorm on how we can keep the momentum going towards helping our families in Africa. I say it every month, but it bears repeating – ALWAYS. We are all so blessed.

As our days get longer and the sunshine illuminates your “highest aspirations”, we’d love to hear how we can help you in your journeys. And if you know of anyone who might want to share in our KKEF journey, please refer them to Amy, Dawna, Stephanie or JR for more information on how they can help with only $50 a month.

Meet the Kidz…

Jambo! My name is Blessing. My school name is Sun Shield Primary School. I live in a village near Arusha, and I am the fourth daughter in my family. It is rare for all of us to get to go to school. I am happy I get to go like my older sisters.

Kilimanjaro Kidz: Blessing

We Need Your Help

Friends, we set an ambitious goal this year to send 22 more students to private school! For just $50 a month, you can help secure their educational future!

If you haven’t yet sponsored and would like to, or you are a sponsor and want to give an extra one-time contribution, please visit the How You Can Help page and donate today! Our students, who range in age from 5 to 18, are so thankful for having their education secured, which includes two meals every school day, and removes a huge burden from their family’s daily concerns.

Please be sure to Like us on Facebook, invite your friends, and encourage them to sign up for the newsletter. Go to KilimanjaroKidz.com and scroll to the bottom of our home page to subscribe yourself!

Spreading the Love

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Happy LOVE month!

everything must be felt with the heart

KKEF board member, Stephanie, recently started a new job and had the pleasure last week of being asked about Kilimanjaro Kidz Education Foundation by one of her new co-workers.

She told the story about this group of middle-aged women summitting Mt. Kilimanjaro together in 2019 and of the vision Amy (KKEF Founder) had when we returned to the States.

Stephanie told her new friend that Amy had spoken with our fearless leader on the mountain and asked about what was most important to them and perhaps their biggest struggle – not knowing if they were one in the same. Our leader let Amy know how much the guides, the porters, and all the men who had helped us along this journey valued their children’s education. They dream of their kiddos being able to learn English, go on to college if they choose, and have more opportunities in life than many of them have.

Stephanie spoke of the children and their fathers by name and told her new friend about the amazing support Kilimanjaro Kidz Education Foundation has had thus far in our cause. And her co-worker said, “I have tears in my eyes. I would like to share this story with my sister and maybe we can both sponsor a child.”

We believe that she felt that most beautiful thing that can only be felt with the heart, the love we have for our KKEF children, their families and the Kilimanjaro Kidz Education Foundation cause. Thanks to all of you who have felt the love as well and share it with others.

Meet the Kidz…

Jambo! My name is Janet. My school name is St. Patrick English Medium School. I live in Moshi, and I like school because I want to go where my sisters go. I am also so happy because my sister Glory is my best friend and we go to school together.

Kilimanjaro Kidz: Janet

We Need Your Help

Friends, we set an ambitious goal this year to send 22 more students to private school! For just $50 a month, you can help secure their educational future!

If you haven’t yet sponsored and would like to, or you are a sponsor and want to give an extra one-time contribution, please visit the How You Can Help page and donate today! Our students, who range in age from 5 to 18, are so thankful for having their education secured, which includes two meals every school day, and removes a huge burden from their family’s daily concerns.

Please be sure to Like us on Facebook, invite your friends, and encourage them to sign up for this newsletter. Go to KilimanjaroKidz.com and scroll to the bottom of our home page to subscribe yourself!

You Made It Happen – Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year to our dear friends of Kilimanjaro Kidz Education Foundation!

be there for one another

What a beautiful resolution that we could all make and be successful at – to be there for one another in all the ways we have to offer.

  • Choose to love.
  • Treat everyone as equals.
  • Love yourself.
  • Show compassion.
  • Love everyone as if they are family.
  • Give back to the community.
  • Smile to strangers.

In 2021, KKEF set a goal to sponsor 21 additional children. You made that happen!!! We have 5 kiddos who were kick-started for the first year but still need permanent sponsorship. Reach out to Amy, Stephanie, Dawna, or JR if you or someone you know can help to make that happen for just $50/month or $600/yr.

For 2022, we’ve set a goal to sponsor 22 new children (thanks, sponsors, for your continuing commitment to our now-39 students!). Since we’re not afraid of climbing big mountains and tall obstacles, we ask you to join us – to be there for our Tanzanian families who have been out of work for almost 2 years now due to Covid without an end in sight.

Donations to Kilimanjaro Kidz Education Foundation (a 501c3 foundation) are tax deductible. ANYTHING helps.

Thank you for sharing our story and your humanity far and wide this new year. We look forward to climbing this next mountain together in 2022.

Meet the Kidz…

Jambo! My name is Glory. My school name is St. Patrick English Medium School. I live in Moshi, and I like school because I love to learn and write. I am also so happy because my sister Janet is my best friend and we go to school together.

Kilimanjaro Kidz: Glory

We Need Your Help

If you haven’t yet sponsored and would like to, or you are a sponsor and want to give an extra one-time contribution, please visit the How You Can Help page and and donate today! Our students, who range in age from 5 to 18, are so thankful for having their education secured, which includes two meals every school day, and removes a huge burden from their family’s daily concerns.

Please be sure to Like us on Facebook, invite your friends, and encourage them to sign up for the newsletter. Go to KilimanjaroKidz.com and scroll to the bottom of our home page to subscribe yourself!

‘Tis the Season

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‘Tis the season when we’re all busy gathering with friends and family, decorating our homes, baking goodies and shopping for gifts.

It can be a magical time for children of all ages as we tell Santa what we’d like under the tree, light the candles of the menorah and feast for Kwanzaa. ‘Tis the season to reflect as well.

reflect on your blessings

‘Tis the season to be happy for our many blessings.

*Friends of Kilimanjaro Kidz Education Foundation are SUCH blessings to us and the children who you are sponsoring!

‘Tis the season to look back at the successes of the year and to reflect on the shortfalls and how we may do better in the upcoming days, weeks and year.

*You all have given hope, help and happiness in the form of private schooling where the children have the chance to learn English and get 2 warm meals daily.

‘Tis the season to love with abundance and to proclaim that love freely!

*We LOVE how Amy’s vision after climbing that tall mountain has taken on a life of its own. And we LOVE all of you!

‘Tis the season.

Meet the Kidz…

Jambo! My name is Kelvin. I became a Kilimanjaro Kid at 17 years old. My school name is Edmund Rice Secondary School. I live in Arusha, and I like school because I want to save people’s lives. I want to be a doctor.

Kilimanjaro Kidz: Kelvin

We Need Your Help

Friends, we have FIVE students who were kickstarted with the initial $600, but do not yet have long-term sponsors. For $50 a month, you can help secure their educational future!

If you haven’t yet sponsored and would like to, or you are a sponsor and want to give an extra one-time contribution, please visit the How You Can Help page and and donate today! Our students, who range in age from 5 to 18, are so thankful for having their education secured, which includes two meals every school day, and removes a huge burden from their family’s daily concerns.

Please be sure to Like us on Facebook, invite your friends, and encourage them to sign up for the newsletter. Go to KilimanjaroKidz.com and scroll to the bottom of our home page to subscribe yourself!

Thank You for Being YOU!

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‘Tis the season of Thanksgiving, and we are so thankful for all of you!

say thank you to someone as no one gets this far alone

Thank you for listening to and sharing the story of how Kilimanjaro Kidz Education Foundation came to be and what we’re up to. Thank you for your generosity in being a yearly or monthly sponsor or in sending some extra $$$ our way for ancillary needs of the children. Thank you for smiling at the children’s smiles and believing in their dreams. We have 39 total kids sponsored!! Our Tanzanian family is grateful beyond words, as are we.

Meet the Kidz…

Jambo! My name is Lolita. I became a Kilimanjaro Kid at 8 years old. I attend Sun Shield Primary School. I live in Arusha and I like school because I want to be a teacher.

Kilimanjaro Kids Lolita

Friends, if you haven’t yet sponsored and would like to, or you are a sponsor and want to give more thanks through an extra one-time commitment, please visit the How You Can Help page and donate today! Our students, who range in age from 5 to 18, are so thankful for having their education secured, which includes two meals every school day, and removes a huge burden from their family’s daily concerns.

P.S. Please be sure to Like us on Facebook, invite your friends, and encourage them to sign up for this newsletter. Go to KilimanjaroKidz.com and scroll to the bottom of our home page to subscribe yourself!

Finishing Strong

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In spite of political turmoil, a world pandemic, and natural disasters, you all continue to step up and make a difference.

And we are all just getting started! Please read on.

making a difference with donations

Finishing Strong

While we in the U.S. have been getting kids back to school, and in many cases, getting them used to being face to face again, our students over in Tanzania have their eyes on making these last months of 2021 count to finish out their school year strong. Some will be completing primary school and heading on to secondary school – more or less like high school to us – in January of 2022.

We pay next year’s school fees right now, and thanks to so many of you, 36 students are enrolled for the coming year! We are three students away from achieving our ambitious goal to add 21 in 21. Since some schools will no longer have space available by November, we need to make this happen NOW. If you’re a sponsor already, please identify a friend or colleague who will match your commitment and give them this link:

https://kilimanjarokidz.com/how-you-can-help/

We have potential sponsors who can afford the $50 monthly but aren’t able to kickstart the student with the $600 needed. Should you or someone you know be willing to kickstart a student for a one-time donation of $600, click on the “donate” option on the site!

Meet the Kidz…

Sharon is an enthusiastic and clever young lady who will be completing her primary schooling in December. She attends Deanery Primary School. She believes education is the key to her life.

Sharon

Our students range in age from 5 to 18, and their families have been pushed to their limits during the pandemic, often sacrificing basic needs. Having their education secured removes a huge burden from their daily concerns.

If you haven’t yet sponsored and would like to, or you are a sponsor and want to make an extra one-time commitment, please visit How You Can Help and donate today!

Please be sure to Like us on Facebook, invite your friends, and encourage them to sign up for the newsletter.