By Rebecca Davis | Executive Director
You are receiving this Project Report since you are a current supporter of the MindLeaps GlobalGiving Program: “Leap Ahead: Empowering Street Youth Through Dance.”
Around the world, we are celebrating a new year with our loved ones and hoping for happiness and success in 2017. MindLeaps is grateful for the support you have provided to help rescue street youth in Rwanda. We would like to share with you how one of these youth, Passy, is showing his gratitude.
The Words and Actions of Passy…
One of MindLeaps’ top students, Pacifique, is known by his nickname “Passy”. Passy thinks that “thank you” is not enough unless it comes with action. Here is how Pacifique chose to say thank you…
Passy always comes to the MindLeaps Center to assist the cleaner and the cook. His brother, Jean de Dieu, is also in the MindLeaps program. Jean de Dieu told me that Passy does the same when he visits their HIV+ mother; he helps in all ways possible to make her life easier.
Passy organizes tutoring classes for his colleagues whose literacy and numeracy is very low. He uses another part of his time to go to the new MindLeaps’ library to review his coursework and stay on track so that he can succeed in the new year.
MindLeaps Country Director wanted to know the root cause of Passy’s motivation. In a very polite and calm voice, Passy responded that he always wants to say “thank you” to his sponsors, and he found a way to transform that feeling into actions. He thinks that giving back to MindLeaps by volunteering to do some activities can help his colleagues: “It makes me feel like my ‘thank you message’ matters.”
Changing One Life to Change Many
Passy is one of MindLeaps top students, but he is representative of so many youth in Rwanda. These children have fought against challenging obstacles in a country where 40% of the population is under the age of 35 years according to the UN.
But, as we work to help one child become educated and lift himself out of poverty, it translates into so many actions that help others. In this way, please know that your donation to one person is going toward changing an entire community.
And for that, MindLeaps joins Passy in saying Thank YOU!
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