Jan
Check out two professionally made 3-minute videos portraying the Kilimanjaro climb & volunteer project at the heart of our 2009 Tanzania expedition.
In June 2009, a 10-member Roadmonkey expedition team summited Mt. Kilimanjaro, at 19,345 feet the highest point in Africa, to complete the adventure portion of the Tanzania adventure philanthropy expedition.
Below are two 3-minute videos, professionally shot & edited by two expedition team members: Steve and Joanie Wynn of Bayside Entertainment, based in Marin County, Calif.
The first video shows the Roadmonkey crew during our 6-day ascent of mighty Kilimanjaro:
The second 3-minute video portrays our post-climb volunteer project: refurbishing an impoverished school outside of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s capital, and installing a sustainable filtration system to allow the children, many of who have been orphaned by East Africa’s AIDS epidemic, to drink the groundwater at the school. We also installed affordable, clean-burning gas stoves to replace more expensive & environmentally unfriendly wood charcoal cook barrels.
When we arrived at the school, some of the students, dressed in their uniforms, performed a lovely, cheorgraphed dance in one of the classrooms:
In June 2010, Roadmonkey will return to Tanzania, to climb glacier-capped Kilimanjaro once again and then, in the village of Babati, southwest of the mountain, build a fish pond for a new school.
Join us on this challenging, gratifying and memory-making adventure philanthropy expedition.
Aug
On Aug. 20, ABC News interviewed Roadmonkey founder Paul von Zielbauer, who badly needs a haircut, about Roadmonkey’s brand of physically challenging, culturally engaging, hands-on adventure philanthropy in Vietnam, Tanzania, Nicaragua, Peru and…soon…Cuba.
If anyone knows how to swap the goofy “intro” image of Paul on the screen above with a different, less dorky image from this same interview, please call +1-917-319-8070 immediately.
Thank you.
Jul
Roadmonkey Videos
Vietnam 2008 -- Cycling the northwest
