2024 – the first quarter 2024 started with a huge boost for the girls of Lyasikika Secondary School in the Kilimanjaro uplands of Tanzania. ABCDreams has been supporting all the students at the school continuously since 2017 when the last of our primary pupils graduated into the school. The Seed4Feed Programme Going back through previous […]
Author: John de Ronde
Water Sanitation and Hygiene(Wash) Tanzania
Girls’ and Boys’ Water Sanitation and Hygiene(Wash) Tanzania Girls Just before my departure last year from Tanzania and continuing still to date, ABCDreams UK worked in collaboration with a newly formed local NGO, ‘Binti Msafi’ on the Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) Tanzania. This organization was set up earlier when my acquaintance was secretary to […]
International Day of the Girl Child, 11/10/23
The Girl Child remains constantly in need of support, not just in Africa, but all over the world. At ABCDreams UK we continue to offer our support to Binti Msafi Foundation, a local NGO set up in Hai district, Kilimanjaro, Northern Tanzania to support girls’ hygiene needs at the secondary level of education. Binti Msafi […]
Tanzania WaSH Project 2023 Summary
In my last post, I suggested that we would be finishing the boys’ toilet block by early March 2023. In this Tanzania WaSH project 2023 summary I can report that we have made progress in installing all metal internal doors, grilles, and an external door as in the girls’ block. The total cost for this […]
ABCD UK WaSH Project Update 2023
Going back to the Spring of 2021 I reported: When I arrived in Tanzania on January 4th, 2021 I found the WaSH project ongoing and operating on time. The effluent pit was complete, the two toilet block structures were built to lintel level and plans were afoot for new doors and final plumbing fixtures in […]
ABCD UK & Rotary WaSH Spring 2022
Last year, pre-covid and after a lift in Covid restrictions, I reported the following: The ABCDreams UK-Rotary WaSH project proposed in 2020, a collaboration between ABCDreams (UK) and Rotary UK, at Lyasikika Secondary School remains unfinished as of April 2021. As I arrived in Tanzania on January 4th, 2021 I found the project ongoing and […]
ABCDreams UK-Rotary WaSH Spring 2021
Status: Spring 2021, summary As I left Tanzania in April 2021 The girls’ toilet block was finished, and structurally ready for grilles, plumbing, and painting. Progress to date We therefore made this appeal: to finish the plastering and painting, rendering the girls’ block accessible, at a cost of a further £645. An equivalent amount (plus […]
‘Seed4Feed’ and School Uniforms
Following on from my last post, way back in March and before lockdown, I can report on the success of both the Seed Corn Planting Programme, nicknamed ‘Seed4Feed’ and sponsored by The Rotary Club of Callington and of our continuing school uniform programme. ‘Seed4Feed’ I have been very happy to be collaborating with the Callington […]
Renewed Programmes
‘Seed4Feed’ We’re happy to report this year’s success at our planting programme ‘Seed4Feed’ at Lyasikika Secondary School, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. It’s a programme where all students and staff at the school cooperate to plant corn and kidney beans for next year’s school lunches. ABCDreams (UK) has been supporting the programme since 2017.Just before schools went into […]