Let's Help 100 Girls Lead!

MindLeaps is thrilled to announce our partnership with AIC in Rwanda! AIC is a women’s organization that supports local projects in Rwanda. This month, MindLeaps will receive support from AIC to purchase sanitation kits for our new girls enrolled in our program.

These sanitation kits include essential items to meet the basic needs of each girl attending our program, including: shoes, a toothbrush, soap, toothpaste, a dance uniform, and sanitary napkins. Vulnerable school girls that joined our program in February will be presented with their special, individual sanitation kit as a reward for their commitment and ongoing hard work to improve their lives through MindLeaps. In almost all cases, this will be the first item ever “owned” by these girls. 

An increase in primary school drop-out rates is one of the new issues facing the Government of Rwanda. Ensuring that girls have their basic health needs met is an important factor to changing this trend. MindLeaps is helping vulnerable in-school girls this year through our program and the delivery of sanitation kits to help improve school retention and performance rates. 

Last month, I had the chance to meet some of the new girls in our 2018 program at MindLeaps in Kigali.  I was amazed to see that all of these girls were eager to practice their English and wanted to know if they could "take extra classes" at our center.  It was a clear reminder that the opportunity to learn is never taken for granted in Rwanda - or by the children who need it most.

MindLeaps is grateful to all of you – our GlobalGiving supporters – for making it possible to enroll more girls in our program this year. With the new support of AIC, these girls will have access to our programming to improve their emotional well-being and tangible materials to safeguard their physical well-being. Together, these girls lives are improving – step by step.

Thank you.