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Aminata Bangura
ID: SLGM062
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2018-05-20
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be a doctor.
I enjoy playing with friends.
My favorite subject is science.
Aminata lives with her mother and other siblings. Her father left them to be with another woman when Aminata was 2 years old. Aminata’s mother does petty trading, but she is not able to adequately provide for her family. Aminata is ready to begin Nursery school, but there is no money for that. She wants to be a doctor when she grows up and thinks she will like science when she begins school. For now, her favorite thing to do is play all day with her friends.
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.