Adamasay Kamara

ID: SLGM017

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2010-11-13

Status: Vulnerable Child

I want to be a nurse.

I enjoy reading.

My favorite subject is English.

Adamasay lives with her uncle and grandmother. Her uncle has a small trading business, and her grandmother is no longer able to work to help the family. Prior to moving to Monkey Bush, Adamasay was living with her parents who are farmers. Adamasay was required to work on the farm each day and not given the opportunity to go to school. Her uncle wanted to help her situation, so he transferred Adamasay to Monkey Bush to begin school. Unfortunately, his income is not steady enough to consistently pay her school tuition, uniform, school supplies and other school fees and Adamasay occasionally needs to help her family by selling small goods. Adamasay enjoys going to school, but is asked out by the administration until her uncle and grandmother can raise funds to pay the balance. Adamasay hopes to become a nurse one day. 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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