Empowered by the Life-Skills toolkit, Hayat aspires to be a doctor.

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That pad there, there are two types of pads. Reusable, another one is disposable,
which is very expensive. You cannot manage it. The reason why I'm supporting
people who are in life skill group. If you're in life skill group, you will know how to make pads.
Yes. My name is Hayati. I am learning. I dropped out from school because if I go and ask something
like pens, books, bag, the guidance will say they don't have money. One day my friend follow me
there up to home. Why I'm not coming to school? I said that for me I don't have book. She said
that I should come. She took me to Maton and then Maton advised me that I should join
life skill to learn how to make pads, liquid soaps and to work in garden. I said I can do.
Our work there is to water the crops. This time it is dry season. We are watering our
If there is a pest, they are destroying them. We are spreading them. I'm self-confident.
I want to thank this club here, UNICEF of Uganda. I'm very happy. I want to thank you
because of bringing for us this idea. Life skill taught us that we cannot marry very early. If I
drop out, what am I going to do? I will not do anything. I will continue with making my liquid
soap and send them to pay my school fees. My guidance, they will continue with the farming.
Even here I have my cassava plantation at home. If there is a, if they say school fees, I inform
my mother. My mother go and send them. Thereafter that she will bring money and pay my school fee.
I want to be a doctor. When I'm going for injection, I will see them. They are putting on
very nice clothes. They are riding with motorcycles.
