January 30 — Yesterday was a stay-home day to plan and prepare for Art Day. This morning we got up early to hang up signs on the lawn and set out 47 bags of school supplies, gifts, and art kits alphabetically. The cook and his assistant mamas were preparing the food which included rice, vegetables, potatoes [...]
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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)
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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 [...] January 27 — Today we were off to two Vocational Training Centres to register students for whom we had paid fees. Ngaruma VTC is just outside of Marangu so we were able to hop onto a daladala and be dropped off outside. It’s a clean and well laid out school overlooking a valley with the [...] January 26 — Some hiking and a daladala ride took us quite a distance to these two schools. They are in a very serene part of the Kilimanjaro foothills…not quite so hilly. We now have 9 children at Lombeta SS because many have finished successfully at their primary schools. The Headmaster, Mr. Tilya, was very welcoming [...] January 25 — Made another trip to Moshi Town today to tidy up some loose shopping ends for the children, and to do some major banking deposits for secondary schools. It’s always much hotter in Moshi than up on the hills so we were baking as we walked around town. ‘Hustle and bustle’ doesn’t come near [...] January 24 — Today we arranged for two ‘fundi’s (tailor)to come to the hotel to measure the children for uniforms. One measured for shirts and skirts, one measured for pants and shirts. We are hiring another fundi who is going to knit the sweaters on her knitting machine. Great to know that the fundi doing the [...] January 23 — After our exercises and packing up we were gathered at the entrance to our hotel ready for the hike to Kilema when Lynn accidentally knocked over a 9 foot wooden giraffe carving which was standing next to the doorway! It broke into several pieces as the wood was so dry and we were [...] January 22 — After our usual morning exercises we hiked for about 1.5 hours from our hotel in Marangu West to Kilema ward. The terrain is beautifully forested and we passed by lovely scenes of hills, waterfalls, gorges and towering eucalyptus trees (imported from Australia way back and now an environmental problem here). Arriving at Kisuluni Secondary [...] January 21 — It’s really helping us in maintaining our energy and stamina to get up in the morning and before having breakfast, go up onto the rooftop with a clear view of Mt. Kilimanjaro and do some exercises together. I lead Robyn and Lynn in some pranayama breathing and qi gong, then Robyn leads us [...] January 19 — Today we set our on a long uphill hike to 3 different schools to pay school fees. First we arrived after about a half hour at Kyalla P.S. to pay for the school lunches for Robati who is in his last year of primary school. I think the school officials are pleasantly surprised [...] |
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