Hawanatu Kanu

ID: SLGM027

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2010-08-06

Status: Paternal Orphan

I want to be a teacher.

I enjoy washing dishes.

My favorite subject is mathematics.

Hawanatu lives with her mother and 2 other siblings. Her father is a farmer and lives full-time in a village far from Monkey Bush. Her father left the family to find a better opportunity, and this left her mother as the sole provider. Hawanatu's mother works as a small business trader and struggles to provide for their needs. There are days where there is no way for her mother to feed her children if she is unable to sell enough. Hawanatu loves going to school, but is always sad when asked out because her mother cannot pay the school fees. Thanks to her sponsorship, she has been able to continue her education. She is currently in Class 3. Hawantu wants to become a teacher, and her favorite subject is math.  

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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