{"id":2241,"date":"2016-10-18T22:09:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T02:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindleaps.org\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2016-10-18T22:13:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T02:13:40","slug":"from-22-to-44-helping-youth-in-guineas-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/fr\/2016\/10\/18\/from-22-to-44-helping-youth-in-guineas-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"From 22 to 44: Helping Youth in Guinea\u2019s Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"guinea2016-blogseptember1\"<\/a>Since our first program this summer in Conakry, Guinea\u2019s capital, we have recruited 22 out-of-school youth that we are preparing to reintegrate and sponsor to attend school in 2017.\u00a0 In our first program with these 22 youth, we partnered with Hope of Guinea.\u00a0 Over the course of three weeks, the youth studied English, Science and the Arts.<\/p>\n

Now, MindLeaps has partnered with EDUGRADE to continue the rehabilitation of these youth and work with another 22 new youth.\u00a0 The group of 44 students is studying daily in IT and English classes while also participating in our dance program and receiving nutritional support.\u00a0 We also have a weekly program to visit the families that are responsible for these children.<\/p>\n

On one day this month, a girl in our program said: \u201cSince the day I was born, I have never touched a computer.\u00a0 I am really in a hurry to study and learn in these IT classes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"guinea2016-blogseptember2\"<\/a>As a Guinean, I feel true joy and happiness in my work when I hear such comments.\u00a0 The money doesn\u2019t come from my pocket directly to help these children but from the pockets of supporters all around the world.\u00a0 I hope they know that \u2013 because of them \u2013 these children are realizing their dreams.<\/p>\n

As an organization, we started conducting family visits so that we could better understand and address the family issues facing these youth.\u00a0 Some of these children\u2019s parents are beggars.\u00a0 Some of them stopped going to school simply because their families couldn\u2019t afford the nominal fees.\u00a0 Still others struggled to stay in school because they never actually learned how to read.<\/p>\n

With the arrival of MindLeaps came a relief and a huge hope for these parents.\u00a0 They realize that our support is for their children as well as their family conditions so that the children can return safely to homes each and every night.\u00a0 This aid affects the morale of these parents.\u00a0 We see them expressing happiness and satisfaction in knowing they have a place with MindLeaps.\u00a0 This is important for our country because we need a foundation built on confidence and trust within our communities.<\/p>\n

MindLeaps has started to help the most impoverished families in Conakry and we will not abandon these families.<\/p>\n

There is nothing more wonderful for me as a Country Director than to see these children happier than they have ever been before in their lives.<\/p>\n

Ansoumane Conde is the Country Director of MindLeaps Guinea.<\/em><\/p>\n

A Special Thank You to The Riverside Sharing Fund for making the family support component of this program possible.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Since our first program this summer in Conakry, Guinea\u2019s capital, we have recruited 22 out-of-school youth that we are preparing to reintegrate and sponsor to attend school in 2017.\u00a0 In our first program with these 22 youth, we partnered with Hope of Guinea.\u00a0 Over the course of three weeks, the youth studied English, Science and […]<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guinea-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}