The Maranyundo Initiative founded and supports the Maranyundo Girls School in Naymata Rwanda, helping MGS to accept over half its students from economically vulnerable families, to support teacher salaries and enrichment, and to build and maintain the buildings. The School provides 450 middle and high school girls with a first rate National curriculum, taught by dedicated degree-qualified teachers and harbored in a vibrant and safe residential community in which to learn. The School opened in 2008 and in 2011 the school ranked first in the National Exams. This is a remarkable achievement for a school dedicated to providing opportunity to the economically vulnerable and is testimony to the hard work and commitment of these young girls and their teachers. An independent school open to students of all faiths, Maranyundo is now owned and run by the Benebikira Sisters, a Rwandan order of Roman Catholic nuns, highly respected for their commitment to academic excellence and their unwavering compassion and heroism during the genocide. The Maranyundo Girls School has high standards, believing that all students, no matter their personal background, can achieve at the highest level. And the Maranyundo Girls School is dedicated to educating the whole person by creating a community of girls supporting and teaching and learning together no matter what their background or abilities. The Sisters foster the building of that community with responsibilities for the campus, the classroom and themselves.
