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Aminata Kamara
ID: SLGM077
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2012-08-05
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be a nurse.
I enjoy playing with my friends.
My favorite subject is Mathematics.
Aminata lives in Monkey Bush village with her grandmother. Her grandmother tries to provide for her basic needs by petty trading but it does not bring in enough money. Aminata loves to help around the house and play with her friends. Her favorite food is rice and okra, and her favorite color is orange. Aminata loves math, and her biggest wish is to be able to attend school. 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.