Isatu Kamara

ID: SLGM019

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2009-02-01

Status: Vulnerable Child

I want to be a bank manager.

I enjoy playing dodge ball.

My favorite subject is English.

Isatu lives with her mother and father. Isatu is one of three children. Her father is a migrant farmer and leaves the family for long periods of time to work in the provinces. This leaves Isatu's mother to run the home on her own. Isatus's father is able to raise enough of her school tuition to get her enrolled, but she is asked out when the next payment is due. Once her family raises the balance, Isatu is able to resume her learning. Isatu loves being in school. She is in Class 3 and wants to become a bank manager in the future. Thanks to her sponsorship, she has been able to continue her education.

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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