Aminata Koroma

ID: SLGM043

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2010-08-04

Status: Paternal Orphan

I want to be a lawyer.

I enjoy playing balance ball (dodge ball).

My favorite subject is English.

Aminata lives with her mother who is physically disabled. Aminata's father died from the Ebola virus during the outbreak when she was 3 years old. Aminata's stepfather later abandoned the family, and her mother is not able to work to provide for their family. Animata's family relies on the kindness of others to survive. This allows Aminata the opportunity to attend school, but she has lapses when school tuition is due and is asked out of school until the money is raised. Aminata wants to become a lawyer in the future. Amimata is in Class 4, her favorite subject is English. She enjoys balance ball (dodge ball). Thanks to her sponsorship, she has been able to continue her education. 

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.

 

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