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Angela Kamara
ID: SLGM069
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2018-07-29
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be a nurse.
I enjoy studying.
My favorite subject is English.
Angela lives with her parents and siblings. Her mother takes care of the home, and her father is a taxi driver. Despite their efforts, they are not able to provide both basic needs and an education for their family. Angela is in Nursery 2, but her parents have to pay her school fees over time. When the next payment is due, Angela is asked out until the school receives the money. This causes lapses in Angela’s education. Angela’s favorite subject is English, and she wants to be a nurse when she grows up. She enjoys studying after school.
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.