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Adamsay Kanu
ID: SLTG021
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2017-05-11
Status: Paternal Orphan
I want to be a nurse.
I enjoy playing with my friends.
My favorite subject is Art.
Adamsay lives with her grandmother and siblings in the village of Tombo, a fishing village in Sierra Leone. Adamsay's father passed away several years ago. Adamsay's grandmother sells food for a living but cannot adequately provide for her family's basic needs. Adamsay loves to play outside with her friends. Her favorite color is blue, and her favorite food is cous cous. She would love to be given the opportunity to go to school as she hopes to become a nurse one day.
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.