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Haja Conteh
ID: SLGM025
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2012-11-19
Status: Double Orphan
I want to be a nurse.
I enjoy studying.
My favorite subject is English.
Haja lives with her grandmother who is a woodcutter. Haja's father abandoned her and her mother when she was nine months old. Her mother was not able to adequately provide for her, so she was left with her grandmother who makes a better income. Still, the income is not enough to provide both basic needs and schooling for Haja and her cousins. Haja hopes to one day attend school without being asked out because of school fees. She is in Class 1 and hopes to be a nurse in the future. Hajas favorite subject is English. 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.