MKPS TRAINING

 

We are beyond excited to inform you that MKPS has been regularly training and educating the member porters on crucial things to adhere to in their careers.

Porters are the backbone of the trekking world as they aid the clients to clear their bucket lists by summiting the mountain.

It cannot be stressed enough how important it is for your porter to be well trained.

It ensures that porters have the right level of skills through training, continued assessment and evaluation.

Skills can be developed and honed by giving the porters confidence in their work and reminding them how important they are in the mountain trekking industry

WHAT THE TRAINING IS ABOUT

-Communication skills

Porters are trained on proper communication skills, appropriate and polite responses to the client’s questions and enquiries.

 

-TeamworK

Porters are also taught the importance of cooperation among themselves and the benefits of maintaining peaceful team work to them and their clients. This makes trekking easier and more of a fun activity, enjoying while working.

-Physical training

This includes appropriate ways to lift and carry the luggage, to maintain the safety of the things in the luggage and in a way that is health friendly to the porter

 

 

-First Aid Skills.

They are trained on the crucial first aid steps for the possible health emergencies that are likely to occur on the mountain during the trek

-Proper acclimatization skills

This includes proper trekking gears, prior knowledge about every trekking route, their duration, difficulty level and the surrounding of the route in general based on the preference of the client.

-Proper utilization of money

Porters are provided with education about proper methods of saving and spending money to help them balance their economic life.

HOW CAN YOU HELP

If you have expert knowledge/skills about trekking life in general, you can offer a training session, we are always ready to learn. You can get in touch with us here. We would love to learn new ideas and gain new skills.

 

You can also participate through donations to facilitate the training; the minimum budget per training is normally $1000.

This covers;

-The trainer’s salary.

-Meals for the training day.

-Cost of the venue of the training.

-Any tools/equipment required especially for the physical training

We will wholeheartedly appreciate any kind of assistance and donation that will be offered to us to facilitate the training.

 

MKPS PARTICIPATES IN MT. KILIMANJARO CLEAN UP TREK TO CELEBRATE 50 YEARS OF KILIMANJARO NATIONAL PARK

It is with great pleasure that the MKPS members will collaborate with KINAPA to commemorate their 50th anniversary.

We are more than proud to celebrate with KINAPA while preserving mother nature at the same time, this clean-up trek is taking place on all routes of Mt Kilimanjaro from the 1st to the 6th of March 2023.