Our mission is to inspire people with Parkinson’s to keep moving and stay active.

Expedition Parkimanjaro began as a challenge to myself and grew into a larger mission.

The challenge was for a person diagnosed in 2016 with Early Onset Parkinson’s to attempt the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, while virtually accompanied by people with Parkinson’s around the world taking as many equivalent steps as they can from wherever they’re based.

In this way, the journey of one becomes a journey of many toward Kilimanjaro, also known as Uhuru Peak.

“Uhuru'' is the Swahili word for freedom. 

Parkinson's is classified as a movement disorder because it takes away many of our freedoms of movement and constrains our living conditions due to its effects on the brain and body.

Choosing to trek the tallest freestanding mountain in the world is a defiant act intended to reclaim some of the freedom of movement lost due to the disease. 

Kilimanjaro is one of the 7 great world peaks.

The documentary will raise funds to further our mission to help people with Parkinson’s to keep moving.

It is also a springboard to grow the nonprofit behind it, MoveSocial, which aims to make the work of helping people with Parkinson’s keep moving a sustainable and enduring enterprise.