Claudine M.
Age: 14
Location: Nyakabanda, Kigali
Last Year of School Completed Before Dropping Out: 3rd Grade
Hobbies: Being in a Rwandan dance troupe
Sponsorship: Primary School ($500)
Claudine is such good friends with Chouette, they call each other "sisters."
Claudine lives in Nyakabanda with her parents, and 4 siblings, 2 of whom – Antoine and Antoinette – are also MindLeaps students. She reached the 3rd grade before needing to drop out due to extreme poverty. She enjoys singing and dancing with a Rwandan dance troupe and her dream for the future is to become a traditional Rwandan dancer. At MindLeaps, she and her sister Antoinette, as well as her friend Chouette are inseparable, and the three call each other “sisters.”