Salma Khamis Ali
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.
Women perform 66 percent of the world’s work, and produce 50 percent of the food, yet earn only 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property.