Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation fundraising mission reaches Kilimanjaro summit

The expedition to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro was successful ©THF

Jordan’s taekwondo athlete Farah Al Asa’ad has effectively achieved the leading of Mount Kilimanjaro on her fundraising mission for the Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation (THF).

The THF’s Center East and North Africa coordinator was section of a group which created it to the summit of Africa’s maximum mountain right after practically a week of climbing.

She unveiled the THF flag at the peak which measures in at 5,895 metres.

Kilimanjaro is the maximum cost-free-standing mountain in the planet with Al Asa’ad’s expedition to Tanzania led by Jordanian mountaineer Mostafa Salameh, a previous refugee who grew to become the very first Jordanian to scale Mount Everest.

The THF operates to instruct taekwondo to refugees and displaced men and women all over the environment and its flagship academy is at Jordan’s Azraq camp, which is residence to Syrians who have fled the conflict in their country.

“I would like to send out a message to guidance the refugees in all refugee camps all-around the globe,” reported Al Asa’ad. 

“To reach their desires and aspirations by working towards activity that develops their bodies, minds, and their self self-confidence, that teaches them tolerance and sport’s ethics, and enlighten their lives with hope for a much better upcoming.”

Sponsorship for the journey was supplied by G World-wide Marketing and advertising and Business enterprise Management and Tatweeg news, and the ascent acquired backing from Planet Taekwondo and its President Chungwon Choue.

The trip was to raise funds for the Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation ©THF
The journey was to raise cash for the Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation ©THF

It was Choue who 1st introduced the generation of the THF on the International Working day of Peace in 2015, all through a speech at the United Nations in New York Town.

“The mountain that has inspired the African continent on its journey to liberty, today its inspiration extends to get to all the world’s refugees, renewing hope in them and promising them a improved tomorrow,” Al Asa’ad additional.

“From in this article I mail a concept to all the refugees of the earth as said by Ibrahim Nasrallah in his guide Souls of Kilimanjaro.

“Each individual man or woman has a summit that he/she must ascend, if not he/she will continue being at the base, no make a difference what he/she ascends from the best.”

The THF at Azraq could produce a Tokyo 2020 Olympian this 12 months with Wael Fawaz Al-Farraj, the project’s initial black belt, bidding to be part of the Refugee Olympic Crew in the Japanese capital.

Paris 2024 is also a goal for the athletes teaching at the facility.

Salameh is a person of the few people to have accomplished the Explorers Grand Slam, which means he has frequented the two the North and South Poles and the 7 Summits – the maximum mountains on each continent.

Donations for the THF can be made here