Climb for Ikirwa School

Gasper Mbise, who founded Neeko Tours, also founded a primary school in his home village of Midawe, on land his family gave. Ikirwa School opened in 2012 with 22 pupils. Around 200 children learn there now, one in five on a fully funded scholarship. Most of the people who paid for it first heard of the school on a Neeko climb.

How a charity climb works

1. Book any Kilimanjaro or Mount Meru climb with us. Tick the charity box on the enquiry form. Charity climbers receive a discount on the climb, and teams of three or more a further discount.
2. Choose what you are climbing for. A scholarship ($508 keeps a child in school for a year), a named building project, or the general fund. We send you facts and photographs for your page.
3. Set up a fundraising page. GlobalGiving, JustGiving or GoGetFunding all work. If you would rather not, we will set one up for you.
4. Visit the school. Before or after your climb we take you to Midawe, an hour from Arusha, to meet the children and see what your money bought. It is the part climbers remember.

Climb for a reason

Every climb can build Ikirwa School

Gasper, who runs Neeko, founded a primary school in his home village on land his family gave. Around 200 children learn there. Charity climbers get a discount on the climb, a fundraising page, and a visit to the school to see what they paid for.

Keeping the school buses running $0 of $6,000 raised

A dining hall for 200 children $0 of $25,000 raised

Eight classrooms and a dormitory Completed

$508 sponsors a pupil for a year $800 furnishes a classroom $15,000 builds one

Plan a charity climb Visit the Ikirwa School website

Climb, safari, and a week at the school

For groups we also run a combined programme: a safari or trek plus a week volunteering at Ikirwa, teaching, coaching sport and running short projects with the children. Ask us for dates.