by Ssali Eugene | Nov 14, 2012 | Rwanda
“When you watch him dance, you can see he is dancing his story of change. He respects himself and the rest of the boys respect him because of the way he takes himself.” The RDDC program is becoming more successful in its desire to help street children through...
by Rebecca Davis | Nov 9, 2012 | Rwanda
The East African Nights of Tolerance (EANT) Festival is an initiative organized by Amizero Dance Kompagnie of Rwanda and sponsored by the Prince Claus Foundation. From November 3 to 10, 2012, dance companies from Rwanda, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya,...
by Sanja Elezovic | Sep 12, 2012 | Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda
Sanja is one of RDDC’s dance teachers in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In August, she spent three weeks teaching hip hop and social work methods to the RDDC team in Rwanda. This was her first time traveling to and working in Africa. “For some of these street boys, this...
by Ssali Eugene | Aug 31, 2012 | Rwanda
“With a big smile, Eric moved to the dance floor because he knew that it’s only a few days until he gets to go to school.” The month of August has been the busiest month of the ongoing program of RDDC with the children at FIDESCO. We received the international team...
by Ssali Eugene | Jul 9, 2012 | Rwanda
This month, new children arrived at FIDESCO and entered into our Dance/IT program. In our classes, we have 17 of the 20 children who began with us (2 have left FIDESCO and 1 RDDC has sponsored to go to boarding school). Now, we have 20 new children as well. Our...
by Ssali Eugene | Jun 3, 2012 | Rwanda
It has been five months since the street children at FIDESCO (a temporary safe-house in Kigali) started their dance training with the Rebecca Davis Dance Company (RDDC) program. Before RDDC came to FIDESCO, the kids didn’t know anything about dance; they never...
