On the last trip to Tanzania President Frank visited one of the primary schools that ABCDreams supports…Kiraracha Primary School. The head teacher informed him that for years the teachers have had to use the students’ toilets as there was no longer a separate facility for them. He was taken aback and set out to see […]
Author: Frank
ABCDreams Team-Building Retreat
ABCDREAMS CANOE ADVENTURE: The Board of ABCD Canada recently went on a canoe (mtumbwi in Swahili) trip for two nights to nearby McCrae Lake. The purposes were to spend time together in nature, to appreciate each other, to work together on practical and physical challenges, and to have fun. A friend of ABCDreams, Peter, accompanied […]
Cups of Love for ABCDreams Children
During our last visit to Tanzania in February, volunteer Joe posted about a need he saw while he was helping serve breakfast porridge to the little ones at one of our primary schools. Some of the children in the line up for porridge were holding cups or plates that were cracked or otherwise unsuitable to […]
ABCDreams Fundraising with CAP!
Once again this year ABCDreams has formed a team to ride in the Canada Africa Partnership Ride. The Dream Peddlers are back! We hope to raise enough funds to provide an entire school of 500 children with a nutritious breakfast every day the school year. Please visit the CAP website and consider sponsoring our team, […]
ABCDreams has a You Tube channel!
On our recent trip to Tanzania, Joe Crone, friend/volunteer/singer-songwriter/musician and teacher, in addition to teaching children English with song, made it his passion to record the school children (sometimes as many as 400 at a time!) singing their own songs: about school, family, life in Tanzania. And OH, how they can sing! The result is […]