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Kadiatu Kallon
ID: SLGM037
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2014-10-27
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be a nurse.
I enjoy playing balance ball (dodge ball).
Kadiatu Kallon lives with her mother and father. Her mother is a gardener and her father is a builder. Although both her parents work, the income is too small to care for the family's basic needs and send their 4 children to school. Kadiatu is able to start Class 1 now, but even going to a public school, her parents have no money for the school materials and uniform. Kadiatu is ready to go to school so she can be a nurse in the future. 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.