by Photos MindLeaps | Mar 12, 2017 | Guinea
In Guinea, two more children have received the chance to attend school : Aissatou Tounkara and Mohamed Samaké. It has been a long, tough road for Aissatou and Mohamed. In both cases, their parents are handicapped and very ill. Aissatou had to drop out of school in...
by Photos MindLeaps | Oct 27, 2016 | Guinea
This month, I visited the families of the youth served by the MindLeaps program in Conakry. I understood and felt the pain that each child has living within these difficult conditions. These children have all the same desires to learn and flourish in life as other,...
by Photos MindLeaps | Oct 18, 2016 | Guinea
Since our first program this summer in Conakry, Guinea’s capital, we have recruited 22 out-of-school youth that we are preparing to reintegrate and sponsor to attend school in 2017. In our first program with these 22 youth, we partnered with Hope of Guinea. Over the...
by Photos MindLeaps | Aug 23, 2016 | Guinea
The words: “summer camp”… For most of the people in Guinea, “summer camp” means traveling from town to town or from country to country. But, the MindLeaps–Hope of Guinea Summer Camp is an innovation in Guinea: The STEAM CAMP (Science, Technology, Engineering,...
by Photos MindLeaps | Jul 19, 2016 | Guinea
Summer Camp ! This is the first time that many street youth in Guinea have had the chance to participate in a summer program. These are children that live on the streets and/or deal with difficult issues in their families that prevent them from experiencing safe,...
