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Mabinty Conteh
ID: SLTG002
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2016-03-12
Status: Paternal Orphan
I want to be a doctor.
I enjoy playing dodgeball with my friends.
My favorite subject is Art.
Mabinty lives with her mother and stepfather, a fisherman by trade, but is currently not able to work. Her father died when she was very small. Mabinty’s stepfather cannot adequately provide food and other basic needs for the family. Mabinty’s grandmother would help often with meals and basic needs when she had income, but she cannot do much these days due to health issues. Mabinty has never been to school due to lack of funds. She wants to go to school if given the opportunity. She likes to play dodgeball and 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.