Salma is number one in her class of 51 students at Ben Bella Secondary School and was the only girl to make A’s in every single class last semester. Salma lives with her parents, her grandmother and her seven siblings, three younger and four older. She enjoys learning science and hopes to one day become a doctor. She said she would use this scholarship to help her family to pay for fees and to make sure the rest of her siblings receive an education.

Hadia has 4 older siblings and 1 younger brother. She currently lives with her brother because her mother died not too long ago and her father is too old to work. Her brother paid for her school fees and supplies in the past, but with the scholarship she says her brother will now be able to use the money for basic needs such as meals and clothes for her father and younger brother.

Hadia ranks number 8 out of 51 students at Ben Bella Secondary School. She hopes to become an accountant in the future and continue to increase her education in order to help her family and people who do not have the opportunity to get an education.