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Hawanatu Kallon
ID: SLGM036
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2011-11-05
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be a nurse.
I enjoy cooking.
Hawanatu lives with her mother, father, and 3 siblings. Her mother is a gardener, and her father is a builder. Despite both parents working, they are not able to provide their family's basic needs and schooling for their four children. Hawanatus parents have not been able to afford to send her to school up to now. Hawanatu would very much like to be in school if she is given the opportunity. She hopes to be a nurse 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.