13 students from Qatar schools conquer Kilimanjaro – The Peninsula

13 students from Qatar schools conquer Kilimanjaro – The Peninsula

Doha: 13 students from Qatar Foundation schools have just returned from conquering Mount Kilimanjaro – the highest mountain in Africa. One of the students, 15-year-old Ali Mubarak, is now the youngest Qatari to climb Kilimanjaro.

The cross-collaborative trip between students from Qatar Academy Al Wakra (QAW) and Qatar Academy Doha (QAD), both schools under Qatar Foundation’s (QF’s) Pre-University Education, offered students a life experience unlike any they would learn in the classroom when they set out to conquer Kilimanjaro, a dormant volcano in the United Republic of Tanzania, earlier this month.

Learning outside the classroom is key to encouraging students to become more confident, says Abdirahman Handule, a teacher from Qatar Academy Al Wakra, who led the trip after being part of similar treks in his own life.

“The main goal of the trip was to help our students be more independent, determined, and ambitious, and to get out of their comfort zones. By the end of the trip, so much more had been accomplished – I was astounded at their strength, and they should be proud of such a huge achievement at such a young age,” he said.

To ensure the students were mentally and physically prepared for the challenge, they began training