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Heading to Inkisanjane 2020 Kili Initiative

The 2020 Kili Intiative team has departed from the Kibo Lodge in Loitokitok for the Maasai Plains under the guidance of JM, Ma’we, and Fast Steve. The road down to the highway is so familiar from last year with Mount Kilimanjaro looming behind the group of Tanzanian and Kenya young adults. The valley stretches for […]

Tree Planting # 13 – Kili Initiative 2019

Trees have dramatically disappeared from the Maasai Marra with the change in climate and the increase of goat herds. The Kili Initiative has been dedicated to fighting this deterioration of the by promoting the planting of trees around schools by the students and Kili Initiative team members. We rose early and washed with the small […]

The Middle Of Nowhere # 12- 2019 Kili Initiative.

The younger members of the 2019 Kili Initiative team were exhausted from the slog up Lolopange and were happy to depart from the thorny slopes of the arid hill. I asked the group, “What would rather do? Climb Lolopange or spend a night in jail?” “Jail,” they answered as one and we all laughed at […]

Lolapange – 2019 Kili Initiative # 11

After dawn the Kili 2019 crew washed in small individual bowls. Face, hands, and arms. I hit everything. Old men smell bad in the heat. We gathered their packs, as Johnny folded the tents to transport to our next campsite. I put my backpack on the three-wheeled tuk-tuk. “You aren’t carrying yours,” asked Vanessa, as […]