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Iye Davis
ID: SLGM047
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2014-06-05
Status: Paternal Orphan/Vulnerable Child
I want to be a doctor.
I enjoy doing laundry.
My favorite subject is mathematics.
Iye lives with her mother and 2 siblings. Her father died when she was 2 years old. Iyes mother is a small business trader, and she is not able to provide for all of her family's needs and school costs. Iye is able to attend school, but once the next tuition payment is due, she is asked to leave. Once her mother raises the money, Iye can resume school again. This causes lapses in her learning. Iye wants to become a doctor in the future. Her favorite subject is Math, and she enjoys doing the laundry after school.
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.