Florence Dixon

ID: SLGM015

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2010-04-10

Status: Vulnerable Child

I want to be a teacher.

I enjoy playing dodge ball.

My favorite subject is art.

Florence lives with her mother and father. Her father is a builder and her mother sells groundnuts. Florence is the oldest of three children. Her parents cannot afford to provide for the family's basic needs and school tuition, uniforms, school supplies and other school fees. However, Florence is the oldest, so they work hard to pay her tuition. Florence is often asked out of school when her parents need to pay the balance. Being asked out of school and waiting at home for her parents to raise the balance makes Florence sad. Florence enjoys being in school and is in Class 2. Florence wants to be a teacher when she grows up. Thanks to her sponsorship, she has been able to continue her education.

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.

 

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