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Fatmata Dumbuya
ID: SLGM065
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2018-10-25
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be a doctor.
I enjoy playing with friends.
My favorite subject is science.
Fatmata lives with her mother who grows and sells vegetables for a living. Her father left the family for another woman when Fatmata was only 1 year old. Fatmata is ready to attend Nursery school, but there is no money for her to begin. She wants to be a doctor when she grows up, and she think her favorite subject will be science when she is able to start. For now Fatmata loves playing with her friends during the 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.