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Isatu Trawalie
ID: SLGM075
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2019-11-11
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be a lawyer.
I enjoy playing with my friends.
My favorite subject is Art.
Isatu lives in the village of Monkey Bush with her mother and sister. Her mom works as a petty trader but cannot provide adequately for her family. Isatu’s favorite color is yellow, and her favorite food is cous cous. She loves to play with her friends and is excited to begin school. She 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.