ABCDreams UK-Rotary WaSH Project: Current Status 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 I found project ongoing and operating on time. The effluent pit was complete, the two […]
‘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 […]
Autumn, 2019
During a busy year-end in 2018, and a flying start to 2019 working towards a major infrastructure project, I visited the Rotary Club of Callington where I was awarded a Rotary District 1175 grant. With a further donation of £500 from my own club, Morden Rotary in South London we raised a total of £2500 […]
Lyasikika WASH Project 2019
Our recent WASH (Water, Sanitation & Hygiene) project at Lyasikika Secondary School, Northern Tanzania finished on time and on budget (almost!). A mapping of school WASH in every school in 16 districts (2,697 schools) carried out jointly by WaterAid, UNICEF and others shows that the provision of water, sanitation and hygiene in pre‐primary, primary and […]
WASH – Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (Water under the Bridge!)
Lyasikika Secondary School, Machame East Ward, Kilimanjaro Region, Northern Tanzania – a long list to locate a place! But here is where many of the ABCD (UK) students with whom we started in 2013 are now registered (30 of the total of 110). And more every year as I begin to wind down the primary […]
Fundraising for ABCD (UK) in and around South London – 2018
Fundraising in London – it’s always good to be back in London for this 2nd quarter of fundraising activities. It’s a busy quarter but in a completely different way than our ‘business’ in Tanzania. In Tanzania I deal with people of the village, the village committee, the pastor of the church, the headteachers and especially […]
Social-Political Change in the Air
There has been little or no investment in the education sector in Tanzania beyond day-to-day running costs in the past 3 decades. As a result school infrastructures are failing while teaching and learning suffer from low morale and inertia on the part of many teachers. We hope now, with the new president, that change is […]
On our way back to Tanzania
After a lovely (but cold) winter sojourn in London, I’m on my way back to warmth and a welcome from Tanzania. This is a short post just to thank all our donors over this past year, especially the Rotary Club of Callington who are sponsoring our next school infrastructure project – the kitchen at Mwowe […]
ABCD (UK) BACK IN LONDON
This year’s 4th quarter has proved as busy as all the rest. As we also come to the end of the 4th year of operation I can report a very successful working system. I am accepted in the village now and seen as a friend and benefactor. Known as ‘Baba John’ I can drive through […]