{"id":2501,"date":"2018-03-20T13:27:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T17:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindleaps.org\/en\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2018-03-20T13:27:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T17:27:56","slug":"from-2017-to-2018-celebrating-90-kids-in-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/en\/2018\/03\/20\/from-2017-to-2018-celebrating-90-kids-in-school\/","title":{"rendered":"From 2017 to 2018: Celebrating 90 Kids in School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_2502\" style=\"width: 310px\"  class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mindleaps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Blog2018-RW_January_Photo2.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2502\" src=\"http:\/\/mindleaps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Blog2018-RW_January_Photo2-300x245.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our kids arriving at Mpanda Vocational Training Center<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>At the end of 2017, we had 16 kids take the national exam in Rwanda.\u00a0 This exam is an educational milestone for all Rwandan children.\u00a0 At MindLeaps, all 16 of our kids passed with impressively good scores!\u00a0 They were admitted to good schools; in January, they started their lives in formal education.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_2503\" style=\"width: 310px\"  class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mindleaps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Blog2018-RW_January_Photo1.png\" rel=\"lightbox-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2503 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mindleaps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Blog2018-RW_January_Photo1-300x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MindLeaps kids getting ready for school<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, MindLeaps Rwanda celebrated another critical milestone as 2017 passed into 2018.\u00a0 For the first time in the organization\u2019s history, all of the kids enrolled at the MindLeaps Center in 2017 were sponsored to go to formal education in 2018!\u00a0 In addition to the 16 who passed the national exam, another 28 kids were entered into the appropriate grade level for their ability. \u00a0These kids join our existing 46 sponsored youth \u2013 bringing the total number of MindLeaps-sponsored former street children in school to 90 children in 2018!\u00a0 Twenty-eight of these children are in primary school, another 43 are enrolled in secondary school and 19 are following vocational training in trade schools.<\/p>\n<p>Through hard work and resilience, it is such an honor to see our kids leaping forward in life &#8211; irrespective of their backgrounds. \u00a0As they enter these schoolrooms, they are \u201cequal\u201d to their peers and now have the same chance to improve their lives as others.\u00a0 Beyond reasonable doubt, we believe that these are the next generation of leaders who will transform Rwanda &#8211; and the African continent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of 2017, we had 16 kids take the national exam in Rwanda.\u00a0 This exam is an educational milestone for all Rwandan children.\u00a0 At MindLeaps, all 16 of our kids passed with impressively good scores!\u00a0 They were admitted to good schools; in January, they started their lives in formal education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rwanda-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}