Adamasay Kamara

ID: SLGM018

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2009-12-15

Status: Vulnerable Child

I want to be a nurse.

I enjoy singing.

My favorite subject is English.

Adamasay lives with her uncle. Her parents are farmers in their village and cannot afford to send Adamasay to school. Adamasay was working on the farm each day with her parents. After her uncle visited, he offered to bring her to Monkey Bush and enroll her in school. Adamasay's uncle is able to enroll her in school, but he cannot pay the balance in full. Once the next payment is due, Adamasay is asked out of school until her uncle can raise the funds to resume her schooling. Adamasay is in Class 4 and she wants to become a nurse when she grows up. 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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