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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The Success of Arts and Hearts!

What a wonderful evening October 23 was! Despite the heavy rain, we had almost 150 guests come out to Madsen’s Greenhouse Banquet in Newmarket for dinner, silent auction and entertainment. There’s so many people to thank for the success of this event that it’s impossible to know where to start…so I’ll just extend a huge thank [...]

The Australia Connection

Ken Wall, Rotarian from Melbourne, Australia whom we met last year at Mindcamp, has made ABCD: Art Building Children’s Dreams (Oz) a reality!

Ken uses our organization here in Canada as a model, and with the support of his Rotary club, is raising funds for 13 children in need of help on the island of Fiji. The [...]

Farmer's Market Fundraiser

Every Thursday from 3 pm to 7 pm my son Adam and his partner Blythe bring their jars of organic preserves, pickles, jams, veggies to the Organic Farmer’s Market at Dufferin Grove Park in the west end of Toronto.

They sell these delicious home-made products, made with veggies they have grown themselves, as part of their new [...]

Our New Video

We are very happy to have a wonderful new video about ABCD: Art Building Children’s Dreams, now ready for showing at presentations to schools, conferences, and other events.

It was created by Thomas Lin and is a beautiful montage of children’s faces and art with lovely scenes of the Tanzanian landscape. The sound track is a [...]

Nyimbo Za Watoto (Songs for the Children)

ABCD: Art Building Children’s Dreams now has a CD of wonderful original music with which we can raise more funds for the children. It’s called NYIMBO ZA WATOTO (Songs for the Children).

The coordination of the massive effort to do this work was done by a good friend of mine, Graham Fife, a music lover and generous [...]

Display at Mindcamp

For the second year running we were happy to be invited to set up a display at Mindcamp, a creativity conference held annually in September just north of Toronto.

During the 4 days of Mindcamp we met many interesting people who had great questions, comments and ideas. What better place to share ideas about developing ABCD: Art [...]

We Go to a Wedding!

The young woman who cuts my hair at Wincuts in Newmarket, Kristina, has been a supporter of ABCD: Art Building Children’s Dreams for a while now. She came up with a very cool idea for fundraising. At her wedding reception on September 19, instead of bonboniere’s (wedding favours) at the guest’s tables, were beautiful cards showing [...]