Kigali- 3rd October 2019– Meet Agasaro Chance Grace. The 16- year-old senior three scholar at Groupe Scolaire Camp Kanombe. Chance Grace loves mathematics and science subjects and she aspires to be a medical doctor.
In partnership with Mastercard Foundation through its Leaders in Teaching Initiative in Rwanda, Inspire Educate and Empower Rwanda (IEE) is piloting the Teaching Assistantships project through which 150 bright young women in their gap year are posted in 73 schools in 15 districts across Rwanda. These Teaching Assistants work alongside qualified teachers to teach mathematics and science subjects.
18-year-old Akimana Latifah is one of the 150 Teaching Assistants. She is deployed at Groupe Scolaire Camp Kanombe, where she assists Chance Grace and her fellow senior three students to learn Biology and Physics in collaboration with Ms. Niyonizeye Marie Claire the class teacher.
Asked how she is benefitting from Latifah’s lessons, Chance Grace smiles and says, she motivates me a lot. When we are talking, she tells me that a young girl like me can also study and perform well in sciences. She tells me to take her as a living example. She is almost my age but through hard work and determination, she managed to do it. Cheerfully she adds that, Latifah has really made me more determined to excel in sciences to achieve my ambition to be a Doctor.
That is the motivated medical doctor-to-be, Agasaro Chance Grace for you!
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