While FIDA team members were conducting a Health and Hygiene Session at a Child Protection Center, five year old Hameeda volunteered her assistance. She stood confidently in front of the group and translated all the information from Urdu to Pushto for the other children.

The following day, FIDA’s field staff visited a nearby village and found Hameeda teaching her brothers how to properly wash their hands with soap. Hameeda’s mother told FIDA’s female Public Health Promoters that Hameeda had come home and told everyone in her extended family what she had learned about the importance of personal hygiene.

Now Hameeda is motivating everyone in her family and at the Child Protection Center to adopt proper hand washing methods. She has become FIDA's youngest, honorary Public Health Promoter.

See her case study here.