Abigail Kamara

ID: SLGM055

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2015-01-01

Status: Social Orphan

I want to be an attorney.

I enjoy studying.

My favorite subject is art.

Abigail lives with her aunt, a gardener. Abigail's mother left her with her aunt after deciding she could not cope with the responsibility of raising her. Abigail's aunt cannot sufficiently provide for her own children and Abigail's basic needs and education. Abigail was able to start school this past year, but her aunt is not able to consistently pay her tuition. When it is time to pay the balance, Abigail is sent home until her aunt can raise the needed funds. This causes lapses in her education, and she is just getting started in school.Thanks to her sponsorship, she has been able to continue her education. Abigail wants to be a lawyer in the future. Her favorite subject is art. 

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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