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Maranyundo Initiative Educating and Empowering Girls Our Story Seeing the Potential of Every Rwandan Girl Our Mission The Maranyundo Initiative is proud to support access to academic excellence for girls in Rwanda. We built the Maranyundo Girls School one of Rwandas top schools for girls in grades 712 and provide financial support for ongoing school operations including scholarships for economically vulnerable students that ensure at least 50 of MGS students receive full scholarship competitive teacher salaries to attract and retain high quality teachers and campus development and maintenance educational programming to promote academic excellence and ensure MGS continues to be a leading school including ongoing faculty professional development STEM resources and programming college and career programs and technology and materials the extension of similar support and programming to other students educators and schools in Rwanda beyond the MGS on a selected basis for broader impact What We Do Grants to the Maranyundo Girls School go toward student scholarships and investments in the learning environment including infrastructure dorms faculty housing classrooms labs equipment and materials library materials lab materials computers and smartphones teacher salaries and professional development national curriculum training distance learning training and college counseling and support college counselor support and mentorship standardized testing Offer Scholarships Offer scholarships to vulnerable families. Train Teachers Promote and enable professional development for teachers and administrators. College and Career Counseling Assist students during the college application process and mentor students on various career options to pursue after high school.