Give Clean Water to Kids in Africa

Yakin is cute young girl who is learning at one of the government schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She is a twelve-year grade 7 student. Yakin is famous in the school with her academic achievement. She has been scoring the highest mark in the school for the last preceding seven years.

Yakin is living with her mother, father and three sisters. Her elder sister, who was very cleaver like Yakin, was learning at the same school two years back. She got scholarship at private school and has left now.

Like most of the children att school, Yakin is from a poor family who are not educated, but strongly believe in education. They believe their children will lift the family up when they grow and own a job. Lakin, with a big vision and responsibility of helping her parents, wants to be a doctor.

Yakin is a Child Ambassador in her school. At break times she has so many things to do and loves the responsibility she took as a WaSH Ambassador. Yakin says, ”Our toilet was very disgusting. I don’t like to go there because it usually gets clogged, and have so many bad things written on the wall. But now it looks so fancy I love to go there! As a Child Ambassador, in the morning we share different health and hygiene messages and songs through mini media with my friends. We also guide students to use the facilities properly and put soap on the handwashing stations at break times.Our school is very improved!’’

Yakin also influenced her parents from the hygiene training she took from Splash. First, she showed her parents the ’glitter as germs’ game that displays how germs are transferred toone another through handshaking. Yakin explained that the game influenced her so much and also worked on her parents. Now, her elder sister started taking soap to school because their school has no such practice.

Thank you for making a difference in Yakin’s life!