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Kadiatu Kamara
ID: SLGM020
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2010-12-13
Status: Paternal Orphan
I want to be an attorney.
I enjoy playing jump rope.
My favorite subject is English and math.
Kadiatu is a paternal orphan. She is the youngest of five children. Kadiatu's father died during the time of Ebola when she was only one year old. Kadiatus's mother is a beggar and relies on what others give her to provide for her five children. School is not a possibility for Kadiatu right now, but she longs for the opportunity. She is able to learn English and Math at home and is hopeful to one day begin Class 1. Kadiatu would like to become an attorney 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.