Miss Ethiopia 2014
NAME: Hiwot Mamo
AGE: 24
HOMETOWN: Addis Ababa
HEIGHT: 5’ 7”
LANGUAGE: Amharic, English
Hiwot Bekele was born and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. At a very young age, she fell in love with pageants and fashion design. At 16, she started modeling and doing pageants. When she turned 17, she joined Next Fashion Designing Institute to develop her knowledge and her passion fashion designing. She is a hard worker. She graduated high school first from her department and joined Addis Ababa University School of Commerce. She had one of the best GPA's at her university, and on top of school and modeling she started working for a production company as a marketer. After a few months she was promoted to Marketing Manager. After graduating from AAUSC, Hiwot started developing her own fashion line. She won several prizes over the years working as a model, designer and a pageant girl. She is now 24 years old, working as one of the top models in Ethiopia and running her own line as a fashion designer.
FUN FACTS
1 Hiwot placed second in a designing competition at a tourism and hotel fair held in Addis, Ababa in 2014.
2 Hiwot was top of her class and department in high school.
3 Hiwot is a designer and a model.