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Aminata Kabia
ID: SLGM066
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2019-07-07
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be a nurse.
I enjoy playing with friends.
My favorite subject is home economics.
Aminata lives with both parents. Her mother is a petty trader, and her father is a taxi driver. Despite their efforts, they cannot provide both basic needs and schooling for their 3 children. Aminata is able to begin Nursery school, but her parents do not have the funds to enroll her. Aminata wants to be a nurse when she grows up. She thinks she’s going to like Home Economics like her big sister. Aminata’s favorite activity is playing 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.