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Kadiatu Kamara
ID: SLGM076
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2018-08-08
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be a doctor.
I enjoy playing with my friends.
My favorite subject is Art.
Kadiatu lives in the village of Monkey Bush with her mother who works as a petty trader. Unfortunately, she is not able to provide adequately for her family. Kadiatu loves playing with her friends and helping her mom with chores at home. Her favorite food is rice and soup, and her favorite color is purple. Kadiatu is eager to start school and hopes to become a doctor one day.
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.