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“I have discovered things about
myself that I did not even know
existed. I am more confident.
I know what I want.”

Benta 2017

Name: Benedetta Mbeneka
Age: 27 years
Origin: Kenya
Occupation: Student

Lars Frost, who has been John’s mentor throughout the entire local community, be future mentors themselves. Young people
program, sums up his experience: from all over the world could benefit from this program. I see a
huge potential for implementation in schools in the near future. I
“It has been an exceptional experience for me to witness how John sincerely hope that this will happen. The sooner the better.”
has developed, both personally and professionally. Even though
we had to overcome small hurdles such as the language barrier, As the founder and originator of the PDAid Foundation, Dennis
cultural differences and an unstable Internet connection, John and I Nielsen is grateful and excited to have received a positive
both agree that we have a great connection and shared an amazing response from both mentors and mentees.
journey together.”
“It pleases me to see how well the mentoring program and the
Peninna Rissgaard is a coach, facilitator in learning philosophy, mentors have performed. We should all be very proud that we are
lecturer, teacher and one of the Foundation’s mentors. She able to provide our group of talented youth with such a uniquely
explains the process Benta has gone through during their 12 designed program. It is simply incomparable to anything we have
meetings. been able to accomplish.”

“The paradigm shift from victim to empowered individual gives The support program, which has been developed in close
mentees an aura of self-confidence and appetite for life. From collaboration with the Chief Secretary, Tom Petersen from the
being stuck in the past and all the bad experiences affiliated with Danish NGO Talent Scouts and with the continued input from KI,
the past, mentees develop a new version of themselves – something continues to succeed in accommodating talented young peoples’
like an upgrade. This upgrade opens the eyes of the mentee to new need for self-belief and a better future. On top of that, the
possibilities and a world where everything is possible. If you can mentoring program received the European Mentor Certification.
think it, you can do it!”
Further information
Peninna elaborates on the effectiveness of the mentoring PDAid Foundation www.pdaidfoundation.org
program, expressing her hopes for its future distribution. Kilimanjaro Initiative www.kiworld.org
“This program is so effective that it might be possible to let the PDAid Foundation Film www.pdaidfoundation.org/about-us/film
mentees, who have the will and qualities to give back in their UNFCU www.unfcu.org

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