Abibatu Kabia

ID: SLGM006

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2010-04-27

Status: Vulnerable Child

I enjoy playing jump rope.

My favorite subject is science.

Abibatu lives with both of her parents who are woodcutters. Each day, they walk into the bush to cut firewood and sell it in their community. This business allows them to provide food for their family, but often they do not have enough income to keep Abibatu in school consistently. After paying some money to enroll her in the first term, she was eventually asked out of school until her parents can pay towards the balance. Abibatu loves being in school, but when asked to leave by the administrators for lack of payment, she feels ashamed and sad to not be with her schoolmates each day. But thanks to her sponsorship, she has been able to continue her education.

Most parents struggle to provide their families with more than one meal a day, so the cost to send their children to school is not easy to come by. Typically, those who can afford to send one or two of their children to school will choose to send only their sons. Girls whose parents cannot afford to send them to school will be left at home to tend to daily chores, and their smaller siblings while the parents are away earning their daily wages. This lack of education and supervision makes girls just entering adolescence very vulnerable to teenage pregnancy. Girls who have not been given access to education are often left with no option but to marry at young ages to be financially supported by their husbands.

 

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