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Aminata Kamara
ID: SLTG006
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2015-03-03
Status: Social Orphan
I want to be a lawyer.
I enjoy jumping rope.
My favorite subject is Art.
Aminata lives with her grandmother who is unable to work. Her father is mentally ill, and her mother decided to abandon them shortly after Aminata’s father became mentally ill. Her grandmother was left with no choice but to step in and care for Aminata since her son is the father. Aminata has never been to school due to lack of funds. She wants to go to school if given the opportunity. She likes to play “Monday-Tuesday,” a jump rope game and wants to be a lawyer.
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.