I attended a wonderful lunch gathering recently with some special people. These amazing people are currently donating their time, knowledge, and compassion to helping us keep ABCDreams effectively focussed on improving the lives of children and families in 10 villages in the Marangu West Ward of the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania.
As if it wasn’t enough to successfully climb up Mount Kilimanjaro, volunteer Teddi came to the villages to help ABCDreams in its work. Whether it was serving breakfast porridge to children, visiting the schools on the bumpiest roads imaginable, taking the website photos of the new students and greeting the school administrators with a smile […]
During our last trip to Tanzania I was very happy to sit down and talk with Yudatade Lyimo about his life since he came into the ABCD program in 2008. My good friend Joe, huge ABCD supporter, musician, teacher and musical volunteer on this trip shot this video of our conversation. Click on the You […]
Our two wonderful volunteers, Jackie and Susan were certainly ‘dropped into the deep end’ with their first teaching post here in Tanzania facing classes of over 60 students! They are teaching for their first week at Ngaruma Vocational Training Centre which is about a 20 minute drive from our residence. There are about 80 students […]
Even though we are all slowly recovering from jet lag and interrupted sleep patterns we have had a busy few days since leaving Moshi town and settling into our residence at the Sekao Kili Lodge in the ward of Marangu West. First order of business was to familiarize ourselves with the workings of the kitchen […]