FereMusa Samura

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2015-01-01

Status: Double Orphan

I want to be a bank manager.

I enjoy working around the house.

My favorite subject is physical health education.

FereMusa lives with her aunt and three siblings in the village of Monkey Bush in Sierra Leone. Both of FereMusa's parents passed away, leaving her as a double orphan. She lives with an aunt who works as a nurse but struggles to provide enough for the kids to go to school and eat. FereMusa likes to help around the house, and she wants to become a bank manager one day. Her favorite food is Couscous, and her favorite color is red. 

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.