This Summer, we were happy to be invited to set up our fundraising stall at the Morden Family Funday. Happy to be back, meeting and greeting again, selling our Africana artefacts and more especially, the paintings and drawings of the children we support, artful paintings like Latifa’s above. The folks who stop by to chat […]
Author: John de Ronde
2025 – Toilet Blocks – the Final Phase
Toilet Blocks Yesterday, April 9th 2025, Lysikika Secondary School in Northern Tanzania saw the grand opening of its new toilet blocks. In the presence of local and district dignitaries, ABCDreams UK sponsored the commissioning of the girls’ and boys’ toilet blocks. The hand-wash stand and the girls’ block were finished earlier. As of this new […]
2024 Developments – a Fresh New Year
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 […]
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 […]