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Fatmata Kamara
ID: SLTG007
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2015-12-23
Status: Paternal Orphan
I want to be a lawyer.
I enjoy playing dodgeball with my friends.
My favorite subject is Art.
Fatmata lives with her mother who sells fish at the market for a living. Her father died in March, 2022. They had three children together, and her mother is now the sole provider. She earns little cash from her fish business, so she cannot adequately provide food and other basic needs for Fatmata. Fatmata has never been to school due to lack of funds. She wants to go to school if given the opportunity. She wants to be a lawyer, and her favorite game is dodgeball.
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.