{"id":9190,"date":"2018-11-04T12:13:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T19:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/?p=9190"},"modified":"2021-03-23T10:13:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T16:13:44","slug":"climbing-kilimanjaro-responsibly-kpap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2018\/11\/04\/climbing-kilimanjaro-responsibly-kpap\/","title":{"rendered":"Climbing Kilimanjaro Responsibly with KPAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/?s=Tanzania&amp;cat=Kilimanjaro\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9192\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2018\/11\/04\/climbing-kilimanjaro-responsibly-kpap\/032-large\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/032-Large.jpg?fit=1440%2C1080&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1440,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;COOLPIX S3300&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1476286752&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.001&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"032 (Large)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/032-Large.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9192 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/032-Large.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/032-Large.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/032-Large.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/032-Large.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/032-Large.jpg?w=1440&amp;ssl=1 1440w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/032-Large.jpg?w=1280 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mistreatment of porters can be a troubling challenge in the climbing industry.\u00a0We are an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mountainexplorers.org\/climb-with-a-partner-for-responsible-travel-company\/\">approved Partner company<\/a><\/strong> with the <a href=\"https:\/\/mountainexplorers.org\/climb-with-a-partner-for-responsible-travel-company\/\"><strong>Kilimanjaro Porters Assistance Project \u2013 KPAP<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 and the International Mountain Explorers Connection \u2013 IMEC \u2013 Partner for Responsible Travel Program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mountainexplorers.org\/climb-with-a-partner-for-responsible-travel-company\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9191\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2018\/11\/04\/climbing-kilimanjaro-responsibly-kpap\/kpap-logo-2018\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/KPAP-Logo-2018.gif?fit=1394%2C639&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1394,639\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"KPAP Logo 2018\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/KPAP-Logo-2018.gif?fit=640%2C293&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9191 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/KPAP-Logo-2018.gif?resize=300%2C138\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/KPAP-Logo-2018.gif?resize=300%2C138&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/KPAP-Logo-2018.gif?resize=768%2C352&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/KPAP-Logo-2018.gif?resize=1024%2C469&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/KPAP-Logo-2018.gif?w=1280 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We voluntarily participate with KPAP\u2019s monitoring activities and allow KPAP to evaluate the treatment of our porters on all of our <a href=\"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/?s=Tanzania&amp;cat=Kilimanjaro\">Kilimanjaro climbs<\/a>.\u00a0 By climbing with us you can be assured that your porters are well taken care of.<\/p>\n<p>KPAP also helps to improve the working conditions of porters by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lending donated clothing at no charge to the mountain crew for use while climbing<\/li>\n<li>Educating the public on porter working conditions and climbing responsibly<\/li>\n<li>Providing industry guidelines for proper porter treatment<\/li>\n<li>Offering educational classes to porters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please consider supporting KPAP by making a financial contribution to enable them to continue with their Partner for Responsible Travel Program and free services for porters. To make a donation, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/kiliporters.org\/donate-now\/\">https:\/\/kiliporters.org\/donate-now\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mistreatment of porters can be a troubling challenge in the climbing industry.\u00a0We are an approved Partner company with the Kilimanjaro Porters Assistance Project \u2013 KPAP \u2013 and the International Mountain Explorers Connection \u2013 IMEC \u2013 Partner for Responsible Travel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2018\/11\/04\/climbing-kilimanjaro-responsibly-kpap\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kilimanjaro","category-sustainable-tourism","category-tanzania"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Xxsg-2oe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9190"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10427,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190\/revisions\/10427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}