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Lamerana Fofanah
ID: SLGM005
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2013-06-01
Status: Paternal Orphan
I want to be a teacher.
I enjoy playing tag.
My favorite subject is mathematics.
Lamerana lives with her mother who does small business trading to earn a living for her family. Her father abandoned the family after not being able to provide for their needs. Her mother is able to provide for some of Lamerana's needs, but isn't able to afford to send her to school. Lamerana is now the age to start school this year in Class 1, but there is not money available to enroll her or buy the necessary supplies to attend. Thanks to her sponsorship, she has been able to continue her education and her favorite subject is math.
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.