By Leela Rajeev | Communications
While changes and challenges continue from the Covid-19 pandemic, MindLeaps is working ever harder to provide stability and support for our students.
At MindLeaps’ Jim Bell Centre (JBC) in Kigali, 100 students attend regular dance and tutoring sessions in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and geography. The Jim Bell Centre also hosts the Family Strengthening Program, which consists of over 100 MindLeaps students’ parents, 98.8% of which are female. Since the majority of parents have at most a primary-level of education, MindLeaps offers business entrepreneurship training to help the parents start and manage their own small businesses. 29 of the parents have now received funds from MindLeaps to launch or expand their businesses.
MindLeaps also operates in six refugee camps in Rwanda in partnership with UNHCR. Throughout the past year, MindLeaps staff have been conducting regular home visits to the children in our programs across the six camps, which helps the students to stay safe, happy, and encouraged. In Kiziba specifically, MindLeaps has been working to make bricks to build homes for refugee families. During one of the home visits, the MindLeaps staff found that one of our students’ homes had collapsed due to torrential rain and so they worked to relocate the family to new housing.
Additionally, MindLeaps is proud to sponsor 172 students in Rwanda in formal education. They are sponsored in a variety of primary, secondary, and vocational training schools, which are daytime or boarding schools depending on the students’ needs. To check on these students, MindLeaps staff conduct home visits, phone meetings, and school visits to see how the children are performing. Our tutoring program provided for sponsored students has been running successfully. We currently have 6 primary groups and 3 senior groups plus English classes for secondary students. The tutoring program has proven effective, as 100% of students with high attendance at our tutoring lessons also have high marks in school.
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