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Fatima Koroma
ID: SLGM092
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2018-01-01
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be a nurse.
I enjoy playing with friends.
My favorite subject is English.
Fatima lives with her mother and five siblings in the village of Monkey Bush in Sierra Leone. Her mother works as a gardener and struggles to provide enough for her family. Fatima's biggest prayer request is to be educated, and she wants to become a nurse when she grows up. Her favorite subject is English and her favorite color is pink. She loves to eat macaroni and play with her friends.
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.