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Christiana Mansaray
ID: SLGM087
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2021-02-11
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be a nurse.
I enjoy studying.
Christiana lives with her mother and siblings in Monkey Bush in Sierra Leone. Her mother works as a gardener and struggles to provide enough for her kids to go to school and eat. Christiana likes to study and wants to become a nurse one day. Her favorite food is rice and soup and her favorite color is blue.
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.