Aminata Bangura

ID: SLGM063

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2015-08-25

Status: Vulnerable Child

I want to be a bank manager.

I enjoy doing laundry.

My favorite subject is English

Aminata lives with both parents. Her parents grow and sell vegetables for a living. They do their best to provide for their family, but they are not able to afford both their basic needs and school costs. Aminata is in Class 3, but when school fees are due, she is asked out until her parents can pay towards the balance. Aminata is also expected to help her parents in the garden after school to help the family business, so she has little time to study in the evenings. Her favorite subject in school is English. She wants to be a bank manager when she grows up, and her favorite thing to do is the laundry.

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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