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Hawa Kamara
ID: SLGM008
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2009-09-11
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be a doctor.
I enjoy playing tag.
Hawa lives with her mother and grandmother who only depend on God for their daily living. Hawas father abandoned the family because he could not provide for their needs. Hawas mother and grandmother struggle to provide food for their family each day so being able to send Hawa to school is not a possibility for them. Hawa hopes to one day have the opportunity to attend school for the first time. She would like to be a medical doctor in the future. 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.