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Fatmata Joy Jalloh
ID: SLTG027
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2018-11-10
Status: Maternal Orphan
I want to be a teacher.
I enjoy playing dodgeball with my friends.
My favorite subject is art.
Fatmata Joy lives with her aunt and siblings in the fishing village of Tombo. Her aunt works as a petty trader but struggles to provide for the family's basic needs. Fatmata Joy loves to play balance ball with her friends. Her favorite color is blue, and her favorite food is cassava and stew. Fatmata Joy would love to go to school and learn about art. She hopes to become a teacher 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.