Two years ago, 13-year-old Amareh had to drop out of school to help her family take care of their cattle. Amareh quietly looks down when she speaks about having to leave school as if it was something she wishes would not have happened.

Amareh says both her parents want her to go to school and continue through college and when Glimmer built the new school in her village she returned to classes to do just that. Her younger siblings now help tend the family livestock while Amareh walks ten minutes to and from school each day and then studies at night. When she grows up, she wants to be a baby doctor.

One of Amareh’s favorite resources at the newly built Girargie school are the large chalkboards lining a wall in every classroom. Her old school did not have this. These chalkboards give Amareh a chance to see and learn from diagrams and pictures that her biology teacher references in lecture. This means that she can better understand each lesson, such as the most recent one about body organs.