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Hawanatu Conteh
ID: SLGM034
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2014-05-27
Status: Paternal Orphan/Vulnerable Child
I enjoy cooking
Hawanatu lives in the Monkey Bush community of Waterloo. Hawanatu lives with her aunt who works as a petty trader. Hawanatus father passed away when she was only 6 months old. Her mother was not able to take care of her, so Hawanatus aunt decided to raise her. Her aunt is not able to provide for both her basic needs and school costs, so Hawanatu has yet attended school. Hawanatu wishes she was in school, and she will be able to start Class 1 as soon as she is sponsored. She wants to be a soldier in the future.
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.