CAIRO – Nine-year-old Zymal Umer has been awarded Prince Abdul Aziz Award for Children Pioneer / Ecopreneur Award in Riyadh, three years after the young girl launched her project to help unprivileged orphans in her city.

Young Umer launched her own business three years ago when a shopkeeper sold her something inside a newspaper bag.

The incident occurred when the young girl was thinking about ways to offer help to the underprivileged orphan children from SOS village, an orphanage consisting of 14 houses with 10 children and one nanny in each one of them.

With both parents encouraging her, she sold her first bag for Rs. 70 and used the money to help an orphan girl named Sana.

This encouraged her to put more effort into the project and start on a journey to help the deprived by founding Zee Bags.

Now, she makes these bags at home using some old newspapers, selling hundreds of them to buy things for the children of the SOS village.

Working for three years in the field of social work,  Zymal recently received the Prince Abdul Aziz Award for Children Pioneer / Ecopreneur Award in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

She was also awarded TIE youngest entrepreneurship award and received a gold medal from the Federal Secretary of Education.