Admira Dumbuya

ID: SLGM004

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2010-09-04

Status: Social Orphan

I want to be a doctor.

I enjoy playing balance ball (dodgeball).

My favorite subject is mathematics.

Admira lives with her grandparents. Both parents abandoned Admira when she was 2 years old because they could not afford to provide for her needs. Admiras grandparents are able to do small trading work to provide for their survival. Admiras grandparents manage to gather enough money to enroll her in school for the first term, but it is only a matter of time before she is asked out because they cannot pay the remaining balance. She will have no choice but to sit at home until her grandparents can raise enough funds to return her to school. Admira has completed Class 2. She enjoys being in school and one day hopes to become a medical doctor.

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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