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Isatu Kamara
ID: SLTG030
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2016-08-10
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be a lawyer.
I enjoy playing with friends.
My favorite subject is P.H.E.
isatu lives with her sister in the village of Tombo in Sierra Leone. She loves to play with her friends and her favorite color is mauve. Her sister works as a petty trader and often struggles to provide for Isatu and her siblings, and she asked for prayers for wisdom. Isatu is excited to be able to go to school and hopes to become a lawyer 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.