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Fatmata Kamara
ID: SLGM070
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2016-01-05
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be a doctor.
I enjoy washing dishes.
My favorite subject is English.
Fatmata Kamara lives with her mother who grows and sells vegetables for a living. Her father left their family to be with another woman when she was a baby. Fatmata’s mother tries her best to provide for her 3 children as a single mother, but it isn’t easy. Fatmata is in Class 1, but she is asked out of school when it’s time to make another payment. This causes lapses in her learning. Her favorite subject is English, and she wants to be a nurse when she grows up. Fatmata enjoys washing dishes after school, and her favorite food is macaroni salad.
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.