{"id":2995,"date":"2019-10-01T13:08:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T17:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindleaps.org\/?p=2995"},"modified":"2019-10-01T13:11:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T17:11:13","slug":"creating-a-space-for-growth-through-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/en\/2019\/10\/01\/creating-a-space-for-growth-through-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a Space for Growth through Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_2997\" style=\"width: 310px\"  class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/unnamed-1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2997 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/unnamed-1-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josiane Before Class<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">19-year-old Josiane is among the 100 young people participating in Masoro Leaping, a project being implemented in Rwanda through Kate Spade\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katespade.com\/collections\/on-purpose\/learn-more\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Purpose<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Fund. Josiane lives with her parents and two siblings. She had struggled with discipline issues, and was expelled from school in 2018.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Josiane says that since joining the MindLeaps program, her self-esteem and grit have improved so much. She is one of the top students, regularly attending classes, and has decided to go back to school next year. During a home visit, Josiane\u2019s mother mentioned that she had started to get worried about her daughter\u2019s future, and she appreciates MindLeaps\u2019 support in helping Josiane shape her future. \u201cJosiane now spends the whole day helping out at home, cleaning and washing dishes before she goes to the MindLeaps program in the evening,\u201d her mother told us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are very grateful to the Kate Spade <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Purpose<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Fund, which has allowed us to witness stories of transformation like Josiane\u2019s in the Masoro community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19-year-old Josiane is among the 100 young people participating in Masoro Leaping, a project being implemented in Rwanda through Kate Spade\u2019s On Purpose Fund. Josiane lives with her parents and two siblings. She had struggled with discipline issues, and was expelled from school in 2018.<\/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-2995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rwanda-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995","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=2995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}