The vision of ABCD: Art Building Children’s Dreams is a world where vulnerable children can achieve their dreams.
We are a Canadian charity that raises funds to help children in rural Tanzania to stay in school and complete their education (Canadian Charitable Registration no. 84438 5021 RR0001)
ABCD:
Art Building Children's Dreams
PO Box 1113
Mount Albert ON L0G 1M0
Canada
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Posted by Frank, June 5th, 2010
Castlebridge Public School in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada is a very compassionate school and very active in fundraising for various causes. The Staff and School Council are now supporting the education of two of our children: Amedeusi and Fabiola. I was recently invited to speak to the entire school at their monthly assembly. The theme of this assembly was CARING. Surrounded by hundreds of children I showed some slides and told the children about the school and home lives of Amedeusi and Fabiola. The children were very respectful and attentive and judging by their questions, very interested in our Tanzanian children’s lives. I presented updated plaked posters of the two children to Principal Paucholo and they will be displayed with past posters in the school foyer.
It’s wonderful to be connected to such a school and to know that Canadian children are being taught the value of global compassion and interconnectedness.  
Posted by Lynn, May 6th, 2010
Rotary’s 2010-2011 theme, “Building Communities, Bridging Continents” reminds me of how close in spirit are ABCD and Rotary. ABCD: Art Building Children’s Dreams is supporting children in Tanzania, Africa while our Rotary friends with ABCD: Art Building Children’s Dreams Australia Inc. are supporting children in the Fiji Islands… building communities and bridging continents together.
Last Thursday I was invited to speak at the Rotary Club of Newmarket about our recent trip to Tanzania. The Rotary family (Rotarians, Rotary Clubs and Rotaract) has been a generous supporter of ABCD efforts in Tanzania and will surely continue to support us for years to come. Wondering about my certainty? Well, I am sure because ABCD and Rotary each share a common concern for the well being of the children of the world and a focus around their educational needs.
I am excited about our achievements and know that the greatest days are yet to come.
Posted by Lynn, May 1st, 2010
Last Tuesday was a special evening at Southlake Regional Health Center in Newmarket. Four speakers had been invited to present their experiences in the developing world to an audience of more than 60. The evening was entitled “Touching Lives Around the World”
Dr. Nancy Merrow, Chief of Staff at Southlake was the MC and opened the evening with the following remarks, “We know that one person can make a difference in the lives of others and that big problems can be resolved with small contributions from many people”.
Dr. Linda Douville, family medicine physician, shared her experiences in Uganda; Dr. Brian Stotland, gastroenterologist, touched on his visit to Cambodia; Mr. David Shaw, an RPN, related his experiences in Haiti after the magnitude 7.0 earthquake. And the best was left to last! I told the ABCD story with a review of our current work in Tanzania and our plans for the future. The evening provided me with an opportunity to say a big THANK YOU to Southlake staff and physicians for their generous support over the past two years. During the December exhibitions of the profiles of our children in the Art Gallery at Southlake, over $10,000 has been donated in support of the educational needs of more than 20 children.
It was very satisfying to know that we are one of the many making a small contribution to resolving some of the big problems in the world.
Posted by Franca, April 15th, 2010
This year we welcome seven new children into our “Children of Kilimanjaro” family: Dativa, Epifania, Fabiola, Honest Erasimsi, Joven, Mary and Paul. You can read about them on our Children of Kilimanjaro page.
Posted by Frank, April 13th, 2010
 I am very happy to welcome Joe Crone to the Board of Directors of ABCD: Art Building Children’s Dreams.
Joe and I have been friends for many years and I know him as a kind, sensitive and compassionate man. He’s also very funny and creative and plays a mean guitar. Joe brings to ABCD: Art Building Children’s Dreams his love of children, his passion for teaching and ideas to help us grow and strengthen in our capacity to help our children in Tanzania.
One of his visions is to see a ‘twinning’ program between schools in Canada and the schools our children attend in Tanzania for mutually beneficial growth and learning opportunities. Welcome Joe!
Posted by Franca, April 8th, 2010
Wanted: Event planner, organizer
This person should be able to plan, organize and pull off successful fundraising events such as dinners, silent auctions, music concerts, run/bike/walk events, and any other creative avenue to raise funds for ABCD.
Wanted: Database manager and communications expert
This person should be an expert with Excel Spreadsheet and Mail Merge in order to facilitate the snail mailing and emailing of ABCD newsletters and communications to the supporter database.
Wanted: Social Media/Networking Whiz
This person should be able and willing to set up and maintain faithfully social networking connections for ABCD on services such as Facebook and Twitter.
If you would like to volunteer your time or services to our organization please email us at info-at-abcdreams-dot-ca. We’d love to hear from you!
Posted by Frank, April 7th, 2010
This is our new website and we’re proud of it. We like having the blog as part of the site so that it’s easier for visitors and supporters to read what’s going on with ABCD. The site is still under construction with lots of new features to be added such as updated photos, stories and artwork by the children and a web store of cool stuff you can buy, so stayed tuned.
Posted by Frank, March 31st, 2010
Haven’t blogged for a while as we’ve been so busy with lots of things…here’s a sampling…
- Preparing tax return for CRA
- Planning and holding our annual general meeting
- Writing 47 new stories about the children (so many success stories)
- Scanning all their beautiful artwork for future fundraising (the thousands of photos are being organized by Robyn)
- Preparing the application to CRA for charitable status (a long, and in-depth process)
…and we are thrilled to announce that our application to CRA for Charitable Status HAS BEEN ACCEPTED!
That’s right, ABCD: Art Building Children’s Dreams is now a REGISTERED CANADIAN CHARITY! We now are able to issue tax receipts for donations and are working on our receipting policies and procedures.
Posted by Frank, January 30th, 2010
Posted by Frank, January 30th, 2010
 
January 28 — Off to an early start today as we were going up the hills to find 4 schools. The roads and trails never seemed to end as we plodded our way into higher altitudes…granted it afforded some beautiful scenes of Mount Kilimanjaro and the air was sparkling fresh and clear.
 
 Finally we arrived at Mlang’a Secondary School which is only 3 years old and a government school. Three of our students achieved high enough marks in Grade 7 to be allowed to go there! The Head Master was happy to welcome us and called the whole school outside for a welcome assembly and we had to say a few words to all the students! Then we left there for another hike to Uomboni SS where we renewed the contract for Honest Peter and a student named Jerome who is sponsored by a group in the United States.
After a brief break in a field for a snack, we set out for Kitowo and Napaku Primary Schools. We had to negotiate a deep valley, over a river and up the other side. These are very poor schools and the teachers were very happy to see us, not to speak of all of the children swarming around us! Not too many mzungus (white people) get this far up into Marangu West. We paid for the lunches of Oscar and Amedeusi for the year.
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