Guinea
Guinea is the newest country in the RDDC portfolio. The Company carried out its first project in this West African nation in 2010 with Ballet de Matam. The RDDC is now in the process of hiring local staff to develop a permanent program with Le Centre De Formation En Art Acrobatique Gangan in Kindia. The program is designed to foster positive relationships between children of different ethnic backgrounds while targeting two pressing problems: education of street children and youth employment opportunities. The RDDC is establishing a series of technical dance workshops followed by intensive entrepreneurship training courses for the street children attending the program. Some of the students are expected to perfect their craft as acrobats and contortionists and make a living touring abroad. Others, however, will have the opportunity to take additional vocational studies to develop alternative employment paths.