Isatu Kalokoh

ID: SLGM054

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2011-09-15

Status: Vulnerable Child

I want to be a nurse.

I enjoy washing dishes.

My favorite subject is mathematics.

Isatu lives with her mother and father. Both parents sell cola nuts (a local tree nut) to provide for their family. Isatu helps them with selling around the community after school each day. Her parents cannot adequately provide for their family despite both working. Isatu is able to begin school each year, but once school fees are needed, she is asked out until her parents can pay the amount due. This always causes lapses in her learning while she is waiting to return to school. Thanks to her sponsorship, she has been able to continue her education. Isatu wants to be a nurse in the future. 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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