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Elizabeth Kanu
ID: SLTG023
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2019-07-03
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be the president.
I enjoy playing balance ball with my friends.
My favorite subject is art.
Elizabeth lives in the fishing village of Tombo with her two siblings and grandmother whom she loves more than anyone. Elizabeth's grandmother is unable to work, therefore struggles to provide for her family's basic needs. Elizabeth loves to play balance ball with her friends. Her favorite color is blue, and her favorite food is rice and stew. Elizabeth's biggest wish is to be able to go to school and learn math. She has big dreams of becoming the president one day.
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.