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Kadijatu Bendu
ID: SLTG001
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2017-02-03
Status: Paternal Orphan
I want to be a doctor.
I enjoy running and playing with my friends.
Kadijatu lives with her grandmother who is not able to work. Her father died in April 2022. Her mother is mentally ill and not stable for her to live with. Kadijatu’s grandmother cannot adequately provide food and other basic needs for her. She depends on neighbors often for food and other needs. Kadijatu has never been to school due to lack of funds. She wants to go to school if given the opportunity. Her favorite game is balance ball (dodgeball), and she wants to be a doctor.
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.