Mountains of the Moon
A Coolamon Rotary Club Initiative
Welcome to the Official site for the Rotary Club of Coolamon Mountians of the Moon Project. Due to the unprecedented success of the Kili Project, we are doing it again!..the mysterious mists, gorillas, elephants and unique prehistoric flora of the MotM await. A unique and adventurous way to raise money for the most vulnerable children and babies in the world!
Current list of Climbers
World AIDS Day Message from RFFA
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Loading ...December 1st 2009 is WORLD AIDS DAY and teh board of RFFA would like you to read our message to all Rotarians and those interested in helping fight AIDS in the world.
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Rotarians For Fighting AIDS, Inc. (RFFA) shares a greeting card and an inspiring message of hope with Rotarians everywhere as we Honor World AIDS Day, December 1, 2009. These notes, pictures and paintings are sent by two groups of Kenyan school children who represent only a small fraction of the 12 million HIV/AIDS Orphans living on the continent of Africa today.
Thanks to so many of you who have supported RFFA’s work, the children who send their vision of a world free of HIV/AIDS are in school today. They are there because you gave the gift of education and hope for the future by paying for their school fees, supplies and uniforms. We want you to see and read about the world you are changing.
Did you know that even basic education is not free in Kenya? An orphan child has no way of affording any school without assistance from concerned adults like our Rotarian partners in so many countries. These children sent their thanks and their vision to all of you for your kindness and generosity. As RFFA’s Board of Directors, we are deeply grateful as well.
We invite all Rotarians to join Rotarians For Fighting AIDS, Inc., and our Founder and CEO Marion Bunch
, as we continue to help the orphans and vulnerable children of Africa achieve their dreams. Visit our website www.rffa.org for more information.
Sincerely Yours In Rotary Service,
The Board of Directors
Rotarians For Fighting AIDS, Inc.
RFFA Rotarians For Fighting AIDS
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RFFA or Rotarians For Fighting AIDS will be the major beneficiary of the Mountains of the Moon climb.
Here is a short video on why we are doing this and it is to help the most vulnerable children on this planet; like Reagan in the slums of the big African cities like Mathare in Nairobi. Reagan is an inspiration!
Reagan’s Dream
Slide Show Mountains of the Moon
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I found these wonderful photos by Hulivili from Finland enjoy the slide show just great photographjy in a beautiful place on earth: The Mountains of the Moon.
Hulivili
The boy from the Far North (Finland) who became a medical scientist, world citizen and connoisseur of the art of living. Currently living in Qatar.
I love anything artsy and/or creative - music (I sing and play guitar myself), movies and theatre, literature and especially photography.
Thank You Hulivili for sharing your work just wonderful.
From The Cape to Cairo by ES Grogan and AH Sharp 1900
(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Cape to Cairo by ES Grogan and AH Sharp, around 1898 these two adventurers decided to plan a route for a railway line and telegraph line from Cape Town to Cairo. They wrote a book published in 1900 by Hurst and Blackett London. On their way to Cairo they went via the Rwenzori Mountains and here from the original book are some extracts for your enjoyment.
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My Father's book Cape to Cairo
Illustration by AD McCormick
Page 200 Cape to Cairo Fascinating
If you want to read more let me know!
Mountains of the Moon More Photos
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Mt. Stanley from John Matte
These photos are courtesy of Rwenzori.com , rwenzori.com was created and is maintained by Ugandan Rwenzori enthusiasts. As such it is not an official Rwenzori National Park website. In fact, this site is not an official website of any government, conservationist, geologist, botanist, peace-loving, war-loving or other such body!
ENJOY! and JOIN US!
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- Everlasting Flower
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- Forest Mountain Stream
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- River Mubuku
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- Lower Bigo Bog
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- Mossy forest, Nyamileju
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- Mt. Speke view from Stanley
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- Glacier edge close-up
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- Stanley Plateau
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- Mt. Stanley from John Matte
Photos from The Mountains of the Moon
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Thanks go to Bishop Masereka and Alex Thembo from Kasese on the foothills of the Mountains of the Moon for the following photographs.
Bishop Masereka
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- The Foothills of the Mountains of the Moon
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- Mountains of the Moon Foot Hills
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- Locals
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- Stunning
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- Beautiful
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- The Mountains of the Moon
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- Snow on the Equator
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- The Bishop's Clinic why we are going!
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- Bishop Masereka
Claudius Ptolemy
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Claudius Ptolemy
He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer and astrologer. He lived in Egypt under the Roman Empire, and is believed to have been born in the town of Ptolemais Hermiou in the Thebaid. He died in Alexandria around AD 168.
In AD150, the Alexandrine geographer Ptolemy wrote of a snow capped mountain range, deep in the heart of Africa that, he claimed, was the source of the Nile and which he called the Mountains of the Moon. Over the centuries this curious notion of tropical snow faded into mythology and, when John Speke found the Nile’s exit from Lake Victoria, a place in fiction for the Mountains of the Moon seemed assured. But then, in 1889, Henry Stanley emerged from central Africa to announce that such a mountain did exist. He mapped it by its local name of Rwenjura - or ‘rainmaker’.
In due course mountaineers explored Ptolemy’s Mountains of the Moon. Though just miles north of the Equator, they found in the high Rwenzori glaciers and snow peaks whose meltwaters represent the highest springs ofthe Nile. These trickle downwards into U-shaped glacial valleys where, supplemented by up to 2500mm of rain/year, they saturate the broad valley floors to form great soggy bogs. Within these rain and mist filled troughs, loom specimens of Africa’s bizarre high altitude vegetation and stunted trees enveloped by colourful mosses and draped with beards of lichen.
JOIN US IN JANUARY 2011 TO EXPLORE AND CLIMB THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON FOR THE CHILDREN OF AFRICA.
We are now planning the adventure and if you are interested please contact me on 61 2 6927 6027 or within Australia (02) 6927 6027 or email:
John Glassford <john@glassford.com.au>
We will have two teams going one to climb and the other as our supporters or better known as the Gin and Tonic Team. We are also planning visits to the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and the gorillas or the chimpanzees at the Kibale Forest as well as a visit to the Queen Elizabeth National Park.
Tucker Time
Cheeky Chap
Kochie & Hockey climb Mt Kilimanjaro
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...24 months ago a group of Aussies climbed Kilimanjaro for the AIDS orphans of Africa and this week David Koch and Joe Hockey, two well known Aussies are doing the same for the children of Australia. We will post Kochie and Joe’s progress here on this web site. It brings back many happy memories for the Kili 28/8 Team.
The reason
+ Kochie was invited on the trip by Joe Hockey – a long time supporter of Humpty Dumpty Foundation.
+ The aim of the trek is to raise money for the Humpty Dumpty Foundation, which supports children’s hospitals around the country and in East Timor.
+ The trek is known as the Ultimate Burn is aimed at raising $1 million for kids around Australia.
More info
Humpty Dumpty Foundation – Humpty’s Mountain
Support Kochie now - direct link to Kochie’s support page
Bishop Masereka and the Orphans of Kasese Uganda
(2 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...We have decided to support Bishop Masereka from Kasase in Uganda with this adventure. The Bishop’s Foundation will join the other two beneficiaries of our climb; namely Orphan Rescue by RFFA in Nairobi, Kenya, (Rotarians For Fighting AIDS); and Operation Medical Hope in Hout Bay Cape Town. Here is why we are supporting Bishop Masereka:
A Group of Students from the Kamaiba Primary School
In Their Own Words: We are pupils of Kamaiba Primary School in Kasese town, western Uganda. We are aged between 6-16 and in different classes. We were orphaned because of HIV/AIDS. We very much miss our beloved parents. We very much need prayers. Life is not easy. We think a lot about our future. We think about our education, our medical care and many other things. We pray that Bishop Masereka will continue assisting us with school fees.
Bishop Masereka at Work
Bishop Masereka's Medical Centre
We look forward to working with Bishop Masereka and the children of Kasese in the near future. Please join us in raising funds from the climb. Contact me on how you can help and what fund raising functions you can hold to support us on this adventure. All the climbers will be paying their own costs and every $ we raise will go 100% to the beneficiaries including the Bishop’s Orphan Rescue Projects in Kasese Uganda.
BISHOP MASEREKA CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION
We are now in the planning stages and looking for climbers. I will post more information as we go down the track. It looks like January 2011 for the climb more on this later.
contact me: john@glassford.com.au
61 2 6927 6027
Audio BBC Documentary on AIDS in Africa
(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...This presentation from the BBC is an excellent audio documentary on the AIDS issue in Africa and covers some very pertinent points that should never be far from our minds.
Aids kills some 6,000 people each day in Africa - more than wars, famines and floods. Millions of children are orphans, many more live with HIV or Aids. This special report, with correspondents’ despatches, key facts, audio, video and interviews, asks why the devastation continues.