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Adama Kargbo
ID: SLGM010
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2012-01-10
Status: Maternal Orphan
I want to be a teacher.
I enjoy playing balance ball (dodge ball).
Adama lost her mother when she was 2 years old. Her father is much older and not able to work to earn income or provide Adama's basic care. Because of this, Adama came to live with her aunt, but her aunt is not able to provide all the basic needs for their family. Adama would be able to start Class 1 this year, but her aunt is not able to afford school costs. Adama was sponsored and 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.