Augusta Sesay

ID: SLGM031

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2010-08-10

Status: Vulnerable Child

I want to be a teacher.

I enjoy playing balance ball (dodge ball).

My favorite subject is mathematics.

Augusta lives with her mother and father who have a small business of selling fish. Her mother and father do not earn enough income to provide basic needs and schooling for their family of 5. Augusta is the oldest child of 3. Her parents are able to earn enough to start her in school, but once the next payment is due for school fees, she asked out. Augusta's parents will raise the money needed to allow her back into school, but her education is disrupted during that time. Augusta is in Class 4. She wants to become a teacher in the future, and her favorite subject is math. 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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