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Isata Kargbo
ID: SLTG024
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2016-09-30
Status: Maternal Orphan
I want to be a teacher.
I enjoy helping around the house.
My favorite subject is Reading.
Isata lives with her grandmother in the fishing village of Tombo. Her grandmother is unable to work, therefore has difficulty providing for Isata's basic needs. Isata is a sweet girl who loves to help her grandmother with housework. Her favorite color is pink, and her favorite food is rice and cassava leaf. Isata would love to go to school as she is eager to learn. She hopes to become a teacher 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.