Children and books go together naturally, but the children in our Tanzanian schools often only see tattered and torn, outdated textbooks. Nduweni Primary School badly needs a library. The newest form of fundraising these days is CROWDFUNDING and ABCD is now utilising this method to raise funds for a new library at Ndweni Primary School. […]
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ABCD School Libraries are Growing!
Our most recent library installation is at Kitowo/Napaku Primary School. ABCD funded the renovation of a very run down classroom as well as the building of furniture by local tradesmen, and purchase of textbooks. Our team this year also brought along a lot of picture reading books to add to this library. The children carried […]
ABCD’s First School Library Club!
ABCD is establishing libraries in the primary schools of Marangu West complete with general reading books, textbooks, furniture and shelving. This year we will open our fifth library! It is unusual to find libraries in the schools because the schools simply cannot afford them. Consequently, making full use of a library as a learning and […]
Heading Back to Tanzania!
The ABCD Board has been very busy lately preparing for our next trip to Tanzania in February. This year we are an eager team of 8 (Frank, Lynn, Mike, Matt from Australia!, Margo, Megan, Paul and Christine). We are all flying over to work on improving the educational environment of Makomu Primary School. ABCD has […]
Libraries Off to a Great Start!
As you can read in earlier posts, our volunteer team put forth a herculean effort and got four rooms ready as libraries for 4 of our primary schools. It is important to us that the libraries are functioning well and available to all the students and communities which they serve. To this end Lynn and […]