by Eugene Dushime | Aug 22, 2017 | Rwanda
Street children come in all shapes, sizes and personalities. I have met some from whom I learned a lot, but I think Ezila is not a typical street child. “An inspiring idea” is something you will always find when you are talking to this young boy. Ezila will share with...
by Eugene Dushime | Aug 21, 2017 | Rwanda
Back in March 2014, our dance program began at the MindLeaps Center in Kigali. Aboubakar Rutayisire (AKA “Abouba”) was not among the 15 street children collected from the street to attend the program. He knocked at MindLeaps gate two weeks after we had started that...
by Eugene Dushime | Jun 2, 2017 | Rwanda
Rene is a MindLeaps graduate who just finished vocational training school in Tailoring. I have been so impressed by the fact that his skills are improving day after day since he graduated. The creativity he developed from our dance program combined with the skills he...
by Eugene Dushime | Jun 1, 2017 | Rwanda
I will not call them street girls. For some people, the word “street girls” means “prostitute”. They don’t look like prostitutes and using that word might be offensive. I don’t know them yet. I don’t know where they come from. This is just what MindLeaps needs to...
by Eugene Dushime | May 7, 2017 | Rwanda
What would you say if you realized that all those begging faces that you pass by everyday on the street have hidden talents inside themselves? In the middle of April, the MindLeaps Rwanda team was concentrated on sending kids back to school. These were kids that...
by Eugene Dushime | Apr 1, 2017 | Rwanda
The local authorities and 24 youth from Nyarugenge District joined MindLeaps students to plant kitchen gardens that will help 65 former street children improve their family nutrition. These gardens will add vegetables to their diet and excess produce will be sold to...
