Welcome to Moving Mountains Trust. We are a charity based
in Ireland which works mostly in Kenya and Nepal, helping
street children and their families with education, health
and welfare, building and promoting environmentally and
economically sustainable projects, and providing
much-needed employment and income for a wide range of
people caught in the poverty trap.
The charity was started by Gavin Bate in 2001 after many years working in the slums of Nairobi, and it is supported by his company Adventure Alternative and an ever-increasing number of supporters.
We try very hard to ensure that our beneficiaries and projects receive a long-term support package which combines finance with careful and sustainable assistance from various angles, such as families, communities, schools, churches and clinics, with whom we have spent many years building strong and lasting relationships.
Moving Mountains is also a registered NGO in Kenya where we employ many Kenyan people to carry out the operations of the charity. We also support other charitable organisations and institutions financially which share our objectives, such as SETU in Nepal (helping reunite women prisoners with their children and providing them with skills), and a hospital in Bilma, Niger.
Feel free to browse our site and we hope you will help us in our endeavours.
Many thanks.
The charity was started by Gavin Bate in 2001 after many years working in the slums of Nairobi, and it is supported by his company Adventure Alternative and an ever-increasing number of supporters.
We try very hard to ensure that our beneficiaries and projects receive a long-term support package which combines finance with careful and sustainable assistance from various angles, such as families, communities, schools, churches and clinics, with whom we have spent many years building strong and lasting relationships.
Moving Mountains is also a registered NGO in Kenya where we employ many Kenyan people to carry out the operations of the charity. We also support other charitable organisations and institutions financially which share our objectives, such as SETU in Nepal (helping reunite women prisoners with their children and providing them with skills), and a hospital in Bilma, Niger.
Feel free to browse our site and we hope you will help us in our endeavours.
Many thanks.
Welcome to Moving Mountains!
We are a Trust registered in Northern Ireland which
works in Kenya and Nepal. Our aims are to work
against poverty and hardship through helping street
children, their families and the organisations which
can improve their lives.
Moving Mountains is in its sixth year as a registered charity, since Founder Gavin Bate first started living and working in the slums of Nairobi in 1991. Now we have six Trustees and a registered NGO (charity) in Nairobi.
In Kenya we support several thousand people directly and indirectly through our projects which we manage directly. In Nepal we have built a model green village, supplying electricity and facilities to a remote area of the Himalaya and restoring wealth to the region. We have also worked with a hospital in Niger in West Africa. We pride ourselves on an exemplary standard of project management and accounting, as well as providing relevant and sustainable aid.
Moving Mountains has virtually no overheads. The administrative costs of the charity are covered by the company Adventure Alternative which also operates a sister company in Kenya called Africampers. Both companies provide all resources, staff and direct funding for all of the Trusts' projects and beneficiaries.
Please browse our site and feel free to contact us.
Child running to school
Moving Mountains is in its sixth year as a registered charity, since Founder Gavin Bate first started living and working in the slums of Nairobi in 1991. Now we have six Trustees and a registered NGO (charity) in Nairobi.
Gav with the kids
In Kenya we support several thousand people directly and indirectly through our projects which we manage directly. In Nepal we have built a model green village, supplying electricity and facilities to a remote area of the Himalaya and restoring wealth to the region. We have also worked with a hospital in Niger in West Africa. We pride ourselves on an exemplary standard of project management and accounting, as well as providing relevant and sustainable aid.
Moving Mountains has virtually no overheads. The administrative costs of the charity are covered by the company Adventure Alternative which also operates a sister company in Kenya called Africampers. Both companies provide all resources, staff and direct funding for all of the Trusts' projects and beneficiaries.
Helping with the kids
Please browse our site and feel free to contact us.
Volunteer and see mountains being moved
There are various ways in which you can help.
1) Fundraise for Moving Mountains. In 2008 we are offering people a chance to join two fundraising trips which incorporate a challenge and a visit to see the work of the charity. One is to climb Mt Kenya and then spend a week touring the schools, clinics and orphanages around the country. The other is to trek from Jiri to Lukla in the Himalaya and stop off at the villages of Bumburi and Bupsa to see our hydro-electric power station, monastery and school. Or you can organise your own fundraising event like climbing Kilimanjaro or running a marathon.
2) Come out to help in the orphanage . We can accommodate you at almost any time of the year, for any length of time within reason. You do have to pay for your flights and your accommodation / transport / food etc in-country but we can advise you on this. We also ask that you do raise some money for Moving Mountains which will help us run the orphanage and increase the numbers there. Great for people looking to work with kids and help out with the running of an orphanage.
3) Come out and work on a project with the Moving Mountains Community Action Team in Kenya. Again, any time of year and normally for about two weeks. You work with the gang of ex-street kids who are now employed by the charity to do renovation work on schools and clinics around the country. You get to see 'aid work' close up, and you get to raise the money and spend it yourself. 40% of what you raise goes into the general pot for all our other beneficiaries, but the rest you get to spend yourself on any number of projects we have going at the time. You can also do this in Nepal and work in the villages and maybe combine it with a trek. Great for people looking to get their hands dirty!
4) Join one of the Adventure Alternative Africamp trips (16-21 yrs) or Gap trips as a classroom assistant for minimum three months either in Nepal or Kenya. Adventure Alternative makes a sizeable donation to the school where you will end up helping or working which enables it to earn an income and maintain itself. This has proven to be a very successful way of combining business and philanthropy. Great for individuals with time on their hands, young people and people interested in teaching.
5) Get a group together and adopt Moving Mountains as your charity and, if you want to, come out and do your own designated project. Remember that 40% of any money raised goes to the general pot, and you'll have to cover flights and trip costs, but we can help you work it out according to your budget. Great for companies looking for CSR in their outlook.
Monastery Nepal
1) Fundraise for Moving Mountains. In 2008 we are offering people a chance to join two fundraising trips which incorporate a challenge and a visit to see the work of the charity. One is to climb Mt Kenya and then spend a week touring the schools, clinics and orphanages around the country. The other is to trek from Jiri to Lukla in the Himalaya and stop off at the villages of Bumburi and Bupsa to see our hydro-electric power station, monastery and school. Or you can organise your own fundraising event like climbing Kilimanjaro or running a marathon.
Jamila
2) Come out to help in the orphanage . We can accommodate you at almost any time of the year, for any length of time within reason. You do have to pay for your flights and your accommodation / transport / food etc in-country but we can advise you on this. We also ask that you do raise some money for Moving Mountains which will help us run the orphanage and increase the numbers there. Great for people looking to work with kids and help out with the running of an orphanage.
3) Come out and work on a project with the Moving Mountains Community Action Team in Kenya. Again, any time of year and normally for about two weeks. You work with the gang of ex-street kids who are now employed by the charity to do renovation work on schools and clinics around the country. You get to see 'aid work' close up, and you get to raise the money and spend it yourself. 40% of what you raise goes into the general pot for all our other beneficiaries, but the rest you get to spend yourself on any number of projects we have going at the time. You can also do this in Nepal and work in the villages and maybe combine it with a trek. Great for people looking to get their hands dirty!
Helping with kids
4) Join one of the Adventure Alternative Africamp trips (16-21 yrs) or Gap trips as a classroom assistant for minimum three months either in Nepal or Kenya. Adventure Alternative makes a sizeable donation to the school where you will end up helping or working which enables it to earn an income and maintain itself. This has proven to be a very successful way of combining business and philanthropy. Great for individuals with time on their hands, young people and people interested in teaching.
5) Get a group together and adopt Moving Mountains as your charity and, if you want to, come out and do your own designated project. Remember that 40% of any money raised goes to the general pot, and you'll have to cover flights and trip costs, but we can help you work it out according to your budget. Great for companies looking for CSR in their outlook.