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Aminata Bangura
ID: SLTG018
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2017-03-15
Status: Paternal Orphan
I want to be a nurse.
I enjoy playing balance ball.
Aminata lives with her aunt and 2 siblings in the village of Tombo in Sierra Leone. Her favorite color is red and she loves to play balance ball when she has free time. She hasn't started school yet so she doesn't know her favorite subject, but 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.