Laurie is one of the three original founders of ABCDreams way back in 2008 with Lynn and Frank. She gave all her passion to its start up and is still in touch with us and following the work we do. One of Laurie’s favourite things to do these days is making lovingly crafted soaps and […]
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Discover Your Potential – Leadership Conference for Girls
On Feb. 19 and 20 at Makomu Secondary School, a conference for girls called Discover Your Potential was organized and hosted by ABCD Tanzania and funded by ABCD Canada. 30 girls attended from age 13-21. Over half of the girls were ABCD girls and the others were invited from various schools in Marangu West. The […]
Support for Girls Update
For the past two years ABCD has been partnering with Days For Girls International, on a project in our Marangu West villages to help adolescent girls and women with safer, healthier and sustainable feminine hygiene management. Our volunteer seamstresses here at home have been sewing together personal care kits which we bring with us on our annual monitoring […]
ABCD Partnering with Days For Girls!
Volunteer Christine recently met with Shawna Strathy, who leads the Ottawa-Gatineau chapter of Days For Girls, to accept an amazing 75 personal care kits destined for the villages in Marangu West, Tanzania. The kits were sewn and assembled by local women around Ottawa and women in a Hutterite community. These kits will allow girls and […]
Personal Care Kits for Girls
ABCD is very happy to be partnering with the charity Days For Girls in a project aimed at increasing the dignity and health of girls and women by empowering their menstrual health management. All of our ABCD girls and other girls and women in the Kilimanjaro Region are receiving hand-made personal care kits with instructions […]