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Isha Sesay
ID: SLTG013
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2016-02-27
I want to be a teacher.
I enjoy playing outside with my friends.
My favorite subject is Art.
Isha lives with her uncle who is currently out of work. Her father is very sick, and her mother passed away when she was very young. Her uncle decided to bring Isha to live with him, but he cannot adequately provide for her basic needs. She has to often rely on getting food and other support from their kind neighbors. Isha had been going to school but stopped due to lack of funds when her uncle could no longer pay her school fees. Isha loves to play outside with her friends. Her favorite game is dodgeball, and she wants to become a teacher.
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.