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Adamasay Kamara
ID: SLGM007
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2009-11-20
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be a lawyer.
I enjoy playing jump rope.
My favorite subject is English.
Adamasay lives with her mother and father. Both parents work doing small trading, but the income is not enough to provide for their family on a daily basis. They are not able to provide their children's basic needs so it is not possible to provide the fees to send their children to school. Adamasay is one of 5 children in her family and has never attended school. She would love to be able to attend school one day and be a lawyer in the future.
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.