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- EIN 26-1905452
- (617) 268-1286
- 2 Atlantic Avenue 4th Fl Next Mile Project Boston MA 02110 USA
- http://www.maranyundo.org/
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Education, Secondary & High Schools
Mission: The Maranyundo Initiative is dedicated to providing both access and excellence in education to economically vulnerable girls in Rwanda. It accomplishes this goal in two ways. First, it provides grants to the Maranyundo School to support a portion of the operating budget for the school each year. This allows the school to continue to accept a significant portion of poor girls from rural areas of the country. Support of the operating budget is contingent on the school maintaining agreed upon standards of excellence,which are evaluated on a regular basis. Second, it provides special programming to enhance academic excellence through teacher development and training. This program provides skills-based training and ongoing support to teachers to foster student-centered learning methods in the classroom designed to develop critical thinking and leadership skills in students.
Target demographics: the students of Maranyundo Girls School
Direct beneficiaries per year: 180 middle school girls receive an excellent education in Rwanda
Geographic areas served: Nyamata, Rwanda
Programs: scholarships which allow the Maranyundo Girls School to accept at least 50% of its 180 students from economically vulnerable families and pay competitive salaries to attract and retain high quality teachers. Additionally , the Maranyundo Initiative offers educational programming for teacher training, professional development, technology and other areas as requested so that Maranyundo Girls School can continue to be one of the top schools for teaching excellence in the country. Grants funds for major projects such as the school expansion as well as more routine school maintenance and improvements. The Maranyundo Girls School is an independent boarding school for 180 middle school students, located in Nyamata, in the Bugesera District of Rwanda.