Augusta Sesay

ID: SLGM044

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2014-08-13

Status: Vulnerable Child

I want to be a lawyer.

I enjoy studying.

My favorite subject is mathematics.

Augusta lives with her mother. Her father did not want to take responsibility for her, so he ended his relationship with her mother before she was born. Augusta's mother does small business trading, but she is not able to provide for their basic needs and send her children to school. Augusta is able to attend school with the country's recent free education initiative, but the school does not have quality education. Augusta wants to be a lawyer in the future. She is in Class 1 and her favorite subject is Math. Augusta's favorite hobby is studying after school. 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.

 

VIEW MORE Sponsorships