by Photos MindLeaps | Apr 30, 2019 | Rwanda
In March 2019, MindLeaps hosted supporters Dr. Howard Bilofsky, Margaret Shapiro and Linda Blackstone for a week-long visit to Rwanda. During their stay, the visitors were able to sit in on a meeting of the MindLeaps parents’ committee, a part of our Family...
by Leslie Massicotte | Oct 2, 2018 | Rwanda
This particular class was a room of twenty Rwandan girls, ages 13 to 19, who come from vulnerable families living in the slums of Kigali. They are students at MindLeaps where I began teaching classes this past spring. Thanks to the generosity of the Alice Rowan...
by Photos MindLeaps | Mar 22, 2018 | Rwanda
Zidane Ndatimana lives with his mother and 10 siblings. Coming from a poor family and facing difficult life conditions, in 2009, Zidane decided to go to the street. Zidane joined MindLeaps dance program through its early partnership with FidesCo, another organization...
by Photos MindLeaps | Mar 20, 2018 | Rwanda
At the end of 2017, we had 16 kids take the national exam in Rwanda. This exam is an educational milestone for all Rwandan children. At MindLeaps, all 16 of our kids passed with impressively good scores! They were admitted to good schools; in January, they started...
by Photos MindLeaps | Jan 1, 2018 | Rwanda
Saturday, December 16th was a great experience for our MindLeaps kids. We had a performance at Nyagatare Children’s Rehabilitation Center in the Eastern Province of Rwanda. It was the first time to travel a long distance (a 4-hour drive) for most of our kids....
by Eugene Dushime | Sep 1, 2017 | Rwanda
I heard this sentence many times in August from different conversations I had with volunteers and visitors: “In this small space, you are changing lives.” The whole month of August, it kept coming up. Here are a few people who mentioned the same idea in different...
