By Eleanor Milburn | Assistant Director
Thank you for donating to the project "Help Refugee Youth in Uganda Find A Future." We are happy to provide you with quarterly updates on our work in Uganda and the impact that your gift has had on many young lives.
Throughout 2018, MindLeaps work with refugee youth in Uganda has been expanding, and we are now working with four local NGO partners:
Save Street Children Uganda: http://www.sascu.org
M-Lisada: https://mlisada.org
Refuge & Hope: http://www.refugeandhope.org
REHORE. http://rehore.org
The over 100 students at these four locations receive dance class three days per week with six hours of instruction weekly. The purpose of these classes is to build children's resilience and improve their mental health. MindLeaps achieves this through a standardized curriculum that uses movement patterns to develop social-emotional learning skills in vulnerable youth.
MindLeaps has trained several local teachers in Uganda to teach all of these classes. Three of these teachers traveled to Kigali, Rwanda, this summer for a three-month training to improve their teaching skills in dance technique, MindLeaps' curricula, and child safety policies.
One of these outstanding teachers, Zani, is a refugee youth herself. She attended the MindLeaps pilot program in Uganda in 2017 as a student. Her talents and dedication were recognized, and she is now a MindLeaps trainer, teaching other refugee youth to dance. Zani is an example of how MindLeaps is growing across Africa: equipping youth leaders with the curriculum and skills to empower their own communities!
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