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Hawanatu Conteh
ID: SLTG028
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2017-10-14
Status: Maternal Orphan
I want to be a doctor.
I enjoy playing balance ball with my friends.
My favorite subject is art.
Hawanatu lives with her grandmother and siblings in the fishing village of Tombo. Her grandmother struggles to find work, therefore life is difficult for Hawanatu. Hawanatu is a sweet girl who loves to help her grandmother with chores. When she is not helping, she enjoys playing balance ball with her friends. Hawanatu's favorite color is pink, and her favorite food is rice and stew. She would love to be able to attend school as she dreams of becoming a doctor one day.
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.