Evelyn Coker

ID: SLGM024

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2011-01-24

Status: Paternal Orphan

I want to be the President.

I enjoy cooking.

My favorite subject is religious studies.

Evelyn lives with her mother and uncle. Her mother works as a small business trader, and her uncle is a taxi driver. She is the youngest of 3 children. Her father abandoned the family, leaving her mother and uncle to provide for them. The income brought in by Evelyn's mother and uncle is not enough to consistently provide for both their basic needs and schooling. Evelyn is able to attend school until school fees are due again, and she is asked out until the balance is paid. Once her uncle is able to raise the balance, Evelyn is able to return to school. Evelyn wants to be a president of Sierra Leone in the future, and her favorite subject is Religious Studies. She is currently in Class 2.

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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