Fatmata Bah

ID: SLGM001

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2016-02-10

Status: Paternal Orphan

I want to be a lawyer.

My favorite subject is English.

Fatmata lives with her mother. Her father passed away when she was only 1 month old, leaving behind Fatmata and her 5 siblings. Fatmata's mother spends most of her day caring for her children, so she has little time to earn money to provide for them. Fatmata's uncle helps the family as he is able. He was able to pay some money towards her schooling, but she is asked out each time the balance is due. This causes lapses in her learning as she has to wait at home until her family can find the money to continue. Fatmata is currently in Class 1. Her favorite subject is English and she wants to be a lawyer in the future.

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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