We’ve chosen the mountain’s host country of Tanzania to receive all money raised from this donation drive as Kilimanjaro plays a symbolic role in our fight to cure preventable blindness.      

Known as Freedom Peak in Swahili, the mountain for us, represents freedom from the life-changing impact of sight loss.

When 55-year-old Chimsi lost her sight in both eyes, she became physically inactive and her blindness affected her entire family.

Believing they were just farmworkers who couldn’t afford surgery in the city, her family didn’t try and seek out eye care services for Chimsi in their community eye centre.

But luckily, the local community told Chimsi about the Seeing is Believing screening eye camp. Visiting approximately six months after her blindness set in, she was given surgery to remove cataracts from both eyes.

The operation restored not just her sight, but her independence, and Chimsi was soon back to looking after her household and grandchildren. In her own words: “My mobility was so low that I felt like I was paralysed. Now I feel very good.”

The Mt. Kiliminjaro climb strives to change the lives of more people like Chimsi. To help restore someone’s sight, donate now.