MINDLEAPS

RWANDA

Since 2014, Mindleaps has changed the lives of 10,000 at risk youth, mainly street children and refugees, in Rwanda, Guinea, Uganda, Mauritania,Kenya, and North Macedonia. 2000 children access their programs each year.
This bridge program offers dance as a medium to engage at risk youth in Africa. Street kids, orphans, and refugees, children with an unstable family environment. The children come in to take a fun dance class,two hours, twice a week. Instruction is giving by trained, professionals dancers.In addition, they are given a hot meal, access to wash and hygiene facilities plus an extra hour of tutoring in their school curriculum. It is required that they attend regular school.

Mindleaps helps them to improve in life skills in memorization, grit, teamwork, discipline, self esteem, creativity and language. 70% of Mindleaps students perform in the top 20% of their academic classes.

Mindleaps is using a system called Tracker that evaluates each child on different points as they go along.This data driven method can statistically show significant changes in cognitive development and emotional regulation within three months.

The Family Strengthening Program worked directly with 100 parents, impacting 600 lives in their families. They are divided into five Self Help Groups. These groups were in the importance of training, business planning, positive parenting and gender-based violence. A percentage of the savings pool is given out as loans to the parents.

IN 2022, MINDLEAPS worked with 177 refugees in camps in Rwanda and Uganda.

These children have nothing. Mindleaps will teach and train them with a goal of a 35% increase
in their learning through the program this year

: Mindleaps continue to focus on the Dance & Data program, The Family Strengthening
Program and the Virtual Academy.

Mindleaps has continued to grow in Africa. In 2023 they made great strides in Rwanda.
This year they will be focussing on Uganda.
They will work with 50 vulnerable girls in the dance program and their mothers. They will
provide a 3 month business training course, 10 small grants for startup businesses and
conduct support groups for the participants for 9 months.

Students in Rwanda have been hit hard by COVID 19. Lockdown has affected many families and has taken their livelihoods away. It is difficult to bring the students back into the school environment. Many families are in need of food, supplies and safe places to stay. Their educational needs are overshadowed by their health needs. Mindleaps has come together to help families maintain themselves.

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