As the end of 2024 approaches, we want to provide you with both an update on ABCD’s activities
throughout the year and one last opportunity to support our students. Have fun scrolling on the tree
and clicking on the ornaments to read about ABCDreams 2024 events, including success stories.
Currently, 66 ABCDreams students are studying hard in school to better their futures and 81 have
completed their education and are on their way to a better life.
And we have just invited 20 new students for support in 2025!
Season’s Greetings 2024!
Click on an ornament to learn about a story; or click on the Star to donate!
Children
We have more than 60 students actively enrolled in our program. Click here to see their lovely faces and read about them!
Secondary Student Success!
Every year we get progress reports about the ABCDreams students who are attending the two secondary schools that we work with in the Ward of Marangu West: Makomu SS and Mlang’a SS. This year’s reports just arrived and there’s a lot of good news in them! Click here to read more.
Breakfast Program
Currently 4500-5000 children in 10 primary schools and students in 2 secondary schools are receiving a hot breakfast before school starts thanks to the generous supporters of ABCD! Click here to find out more.
A New Toilet for Teachers
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 what could be done to support the teachers. Click here to find out what happened next.
Cups of Love
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. Read about it here.
Fundraising with CAP
Once again this year ABCDreams formed a team to ride in the Canada Africa Partnership Ride. The Dream Peddlers are back! Read about it here.
Hey, Hey, What Do You See?
Listen to our kids sing a song with Joe Crone! Click here.
Visit ABCDreams UK
Did you know Art Building Children's Dreams has a UK chapter? Click here to visit our UK site.
Drums for Schools
During our 2024 visit to the villages, we were asked by the school leaders for help to fund the purchase of drum sets for the schools. Click here to find out what happened next.
Team Building Retreat
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. Read more about it here.
Kilimanjaro Marathon
This is an early and exciting announcement that I am participating in the Kilimanjaro Marathon during my upcoming February 2025 ABCDreams visit to Tanzania! The race is on the 14th of February and I am registered for the 5 km run/walk. I am so excited for it and I am training already. Please click here to find out how to sponsor me!
The Amazing Mamas
This amazing group of women, ABCD Care Tanzania, are still doing wonderful work for their communities. They are sewing hundreds of menstrual care kits for secondary school girls, giving health care workshops for girls, making soap for the schools, and assisting groups of women from other areas in forming their own organizations. Click here to find out more.
First Medical Students
Two ABCD students are now studying medicine and on their way to becoming doctors…and both are girls! Click here to learn more about these inspiring young women.
On behalf of the ABCD Board, thank you so much for your continued support of our goal to keep
children’s dreams alive through education.
Frank, President and Founder, ABCD: Art Building Children’s Dreams