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Lovetta Douglas
ID: sltg019
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2018-03-05
Status: Paternal Orphan
I want to be the president.
I enjoy playing balance ball with my friends.
My favorite subject is Art.
Lovetta lives in Tombo, a fishing village in Sierra Leone, with her grandmother and siblings. Lovetta's father passed away, and her grandmother sells cakes for a living but struggles to provide for her family's basic needs. Lovetta loves to play balance ball with her friends. Her favorite color is blue, and her favorite food is rice. Lovetta would love to be given the opportunity to attend school. She has big dreams of becoming the president 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.