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Elizabeth Kalokoh
ID: SLGM067
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2017-11-24
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be a doctor.
I enjoy studying.
My favorite subject is science.
Elizabeth lives with her parents and siblings. Her father grows vegetables to be sold by her mother. Despite their efforts, they are not able to provide both the basic needs of their family and schooling for their children. Elizabeth is in Nursery 2, but she is asked out of school each time school fees are due. This disrupts her ability to learn all she needs with her class. Once her parents can gather enough money, she can continue to attend school. Elizabeth’s favorite subject is Science. She wants to be a doctor when she grows up, and she loves studying.
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.