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Isha K Sesay
ID: SLGM032
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2011-03-15
Status: Paternal Orphan
I want to be a nurse.
I enjoy studying.
My favorite subject is mathematics.
Isha lives with her mother who relies on small business trading for their survival. Her father died from the Ebola virus during the Ebola Outbreak when she was four years old. Isha's mother cannot provide enough income for their basic needs and school fees for her children. Isha enjoys going to school, but she is often asked out of school when tuition is due. Isha is in Class 3. She wants to become a nurse in the future, and her favorite subject is Math. She loves to study at home after school, and 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.