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Take on the Nilechallenge, discover & change

Spend a week living alongside one of our playground building teams playground building teams helping to change a local community’s play space. See directly where your fundraising is going and help with the building of a playground.

Change

DiscoverExperience nature along the Nile with giant eagles, monitor lizards and much more to see as you take on the wild waters.

Take on the first 50km of white water on the Nile in a range of kayaks. Rapids, river camping and island stays on this once in a life time trek.

Challenge

Preparation: EAP will support you every step of the way with your

fundraising from stash to ideas and organised events and the KTN

team will provide advice prior to the trip on the climate, equipment

needed and general travel advice if desired.

Source of the Nile:Source of the Nile: On arrival in Uganda you’ll head to Speke’s

source of the Nile, in Jinja, where the river starts to flow out of Lake

Victoria, for your first, introductory kayak session. This is a relaxing

sunset cruise aimed at helping you acclimatize to the river.

White Water Adventure: White Water Adventure: The next five days of your trip will be jam

packed with action. To begin with you’ll start at Kayak the Nile’s base

on the Bujagali Lake where you’ll learn all the strokes and technique

necessary to tackle the first 50kms of the Nile and it’s world famous

white water rapids. On day three, you’ll try your first white water! Day

four will seeing you continuing your white water journey downstream

where you’ll finish the day wild camping right next to the rapids. On

day five, you’ll change craft to a more friendly sit-on-top kayak as on day five, you’ll change craft to a more friendly sit-on-top kayak as on

this day you’ll tackle up the biggest white water yet. The final night

is spent at paradise island and on the following day you’ll complete

your journey, having kayaked the first 50kms of world’s longest river!

Volunteer:By spending a week living in a local community and helping our

playground team to build a new playground for a school full of very

excited children, you will be able to see the difference your fundrais-

ing has made

Extension trips:After your week on the river and a week volunteering you will have

some time to join one of the extension trips we have on offer. You

can walk with rhinos and see all the ‘Big Five’ on safari or spend a

few more days perfecting your newfound kayaking skills!

Take on the Nilea six day kayaking trek

How to get involved: Summer 2015 will be the first year that ‘Take on the Nile’ will be

running as a challenge project and we are looking for universities

to take up the challenge of recruiting 12 people per uni to this

new and exciting challenge. If you want something that is

completely different, gives an equal amount of challenge time completely different, gives an equal amount of challenge time

and volunteering that really won’t break the bank then contact us

ASAP as places are limited!

price: 2100 per person

Kayak the Nile and EAP

During the 2014 Nile River Festival the

founders of Kayak the Nile and EAP

spent time on the river together and

the ’Take on the Nile’ challenge was

born.

Kayak the Nile, being the most Kayak the Nile, being the most

experienced kayak company in Africa,

and EAP’s years of experience running

volunteering projects with university

societies have combined to create an

adventure not to be missed!

Why ‘Take on the Nile’?

EAP is a charity set up by students that uses the motivation of

students to make huge changes to the lives of children across

Uganda. As EAP was born through RAG, we have always worked

with universities and aim to give the best experiences to students

at the most affordable price.

Over 90% of our funding comes from students and thanks to stuOver 90% of our funding comes from students and thanks to stu-

dents up and down the UK EAP has built over 50 playgrounds

and are planning to open a new work shop in the North of

Uganda to work alongside War Child, VSO and Unicef to build

playgrounds for children in refugee camps. The ‘Take on the Nile’

Challenge’ will go a long way to helping us build more

playgrounds for children who really do need some joy and fun in

their lives.