Isatu Kamara

ID: SLGM009

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2009-05-01

Status: Paternal Orphan

I want to be business woman

I enjoy jump rope

My favorite subject is social studies

Isatu lives in the Monkey Bush community of Waterloo. Isatu's father died during the Ebola outbreak. Her mother has never recovered from the stress of losing her husband and becoming a single mother, so Isatus aunt offered to care for her. Isatus aunt is physically disabled, but is able to provide for the family as a hairdresser. She is able to raise school fees, but not enough to pay the full balance, so Isatu is often asked out of school until her aunt can pay towards the balance owed. Isatu has completed Class 1. She enjoys being in school and would like to be a business woman.

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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