Hadia Mkubwa Makame
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.
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.