Kadiatu Mansaray

ID: SLGM058

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2016-02-12

Status: Vulnerable

I want to be a nurse.

I enjoy playing balance ball (dodge ball).

My favorite subject is mathematics.

Kadiatu lives with her mother and father. Her father drives a motorcycle as a public transport business and her mother is a petty trader. Kadiatu's parents are not able to sufficiently provide for their children's needs and education. Preschool is very expensive, so Kadiatu has not been able to start her education yet. Kadiatu wishes she could join her friends at school. She would be able to enroll in Class 1 this upcoming academic year. Thanks to her sponsorship, she has been able to continue her education. Kadiatu hopes to become a nurse in the future. She is most excited to learn Math in 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.

 

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