Maida Mkubwa Ali
Maida has three brothers and three sisters and lives with her parents. Maida attends Ben Bella Secondary School. She loves physics and math and wants to study and do well in school in order to improve her family’s standard of living. With a background in science and math she hopes to someday become a pilot. She also hopes to have the opportunity to make the pilgrimage to Mecca some day.
Maida also feels passionately for women’s education. In her interview she said, “Women are the nucleus of society. Behind every successful man is a woman. If you want to educate society, educate the women.”
When a girl in the developing world has received seven or more years of education, she marries four years later and has 2.2 fewer children.