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Hawanatu Koroma
ID: SLTG026
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2018-12-15
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be a doctor.
I enjoy playing with my friends.
My favorite subject is art.
Hawanatu lives with her mother and siblings in the fishing village of Tombo. Her mother is a petty trader but struggles to provide for her family's basic needs. Life is very difficult for Hawanatu. She has a big heart and loves to help her mom with the housework. Her favorite color is green, and her favorite food is rice and stew. In her free time, Hawanatu loves to play with her friends. She would love the chance to go to school, as she hopes to become 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.