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Aminata Bangura
ID: SLGM052
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2011-12-28
Status: Paternal Orphan
I want to be a bank manager.
I enjoy doing laundry.
My favorite subject is mathematics.
Aminata lives with her mother who is a petty trader. Aminata's father died during the Ebola outbreak in 2015. Her mother struggles to provide for all 3 of her children's needs and education as a single mother. Aminata can begin school each year, but she is asked out once tuition is due. Aminata's mother manages to raise the required amount for her to return to school, but this causes lapses in her education each time. Thanks to her sponsorship, she has been able to continue her education. Aminata wants to be a bank manager in the future. Her favorite subject is math.
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.