Hassanatu Kamara

ID: SLTG008

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2015-04-10

Status: Maternal Orphan

I want to be a doctor.

I enjoy playing dodgeball with my friends.

My favorite subject is Art.

Hassanatu lives with her aunt who sells wood for a living. Hassanatu’s father left the family some time ago, and her mother passed away this year. Her aunt has three children of her own, as well as Hassanatu to care for, so she cannot sufficiently provide for their basic needs. Hassanatu often helps nearby neighbors with domestic work in exchange for food. She has never been to school due to lack of funds but wants to go if given the opportunity. She likes to play dodgeball and wants to be a doctor.

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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