Anita Caulker

ID: SLGM014

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2010-04-02

Status: Vulnerable Child

I want to be a doctor.

I enjoy playing with friends.

My favorite subject is English.

Anita lives with her mother and father who work as small business traders. Anita's parents manage to provide food each day for their children, but it is difficult to pay school tuition, uniform, school supplies and other school fees for the children. Anita is able to attend school, but her parents struggle to pay the entire tuition. Anita is asked out towards the end of each term and must wait until her parents have money to pay the balance. This impacts her quality of education each year. Anita loves going to school and is currently in Class 2. She would like to become a doctor in the future. 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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