Canadian Volunteer Sparks Solar Reading Light Feasibility Study in Tanzania

by Terry Maynard Little did Joe Scholz, a retired teacher volunteering on the 2013 Tanzania Trip in February, realize that his help with building solar reading lights would spark a feasibility study among the teachers and schools in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania. Joe offered his technical and teaching expertise to show students, in two […]

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Lights for Learning

by Terry Maynard ABCD: Art Building Children’s Dreams is collecting old solar garden/Christmas lights during Earth Week (starting tomorrow – April 18th) to be recycled into solar reading lights for students in Tanzania Kilimanjaro Region. Students form Banting Memorial Secondary School will earn community volunteer hours on Thursday April 21st for disassembling the lights for […]

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Light for Learning Social Enterprise

by Terry Maynard We are recycling expired solar garden lights into reading lights for ABCDreams students!  It’s hoped that students with reading lights will be more successful in their studies. Since ABCDreams students do not have access to electricity we thought we could set up some of our graduating students in a micro business to […]

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