Isatu Kanu

ID: SLGM028

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2015-05-23

Status: Vulnerable Child

I want to be a teacher.

I enjoy studying.

My favorite subject is mathematics.

Isatu lives with her mother who provides for her family by growing and selling crops from her small garden. Isatu is one of five children being raised by her single mother. Isatu's father abandoned the family when he could no longer bear the responsibility of providing for their needs. Being the sole provider, Isatus's mother struggles to provide their basic needs each day. Isatu is able to attend school, but is often asked out of school because her mother cannot complete the payments. Isatu is embarrassed when she has to sit out of school until her mother can raise the money to pay her balance. Thanks to her sponsorship, she has been able to continue her education and 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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