Hi, I'm Kibinesh
I'm a girl, 16 years old and live in Ethiopia.
Kibinesh is a deaf child. There is no access to special needs education where the child’s is residing. Her family is in difficult position to address the child’s basic and educational materials needs due to their poor economic status. They earn a very small amount of income mainly from subsistence farming. The child has a hearing loss. She also had malaria. Kibinesh lives with her parents, her four brothers and two sisters. She was born profound deaf. One of her brothers is also deaf. Kibinesh is the 4th child in the family. The family dwells on subsistence farming. They are unable to address their children’s basic and educational material needs due to their poor economic status. Nonetheless, her family strongly believes that education creates an opportunity for a better future.