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Fatmata Kamara
ID: SLGM064
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2019-04-16
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be a nurse.
I enjoy playing with my friends.
My favorite subject is Art.
Fatmata lives in the village of Monkey Bush with her mother and two siblings. Her mother grows vegetables to try to provide for her family, and Fatmata loves to help in the garden. Her favorite food is rice and soup, and her favorite color is pink. Fatmata enjoys playing with her friends and hopes to become a nurse 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.