Mabinty S. Kargbo

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2018-05-09

Status: Vulnerable Child

I want to be a nurse.

I enjoy playing with dolls.

My favorite subject is mathematics.

Mabinty lives in the village of Monkey Bush in Sierra Leone with her mother and three siblings. Her mom works as a petty trader and struggles to make enough to provide for her family, so Mabinty finds work washing dishes to help provide for her family. Mabinty enjoys helping her mom around the house and likes to play with dolls. Her favorite color is blue, and her favorite food is rice and stew. She enjoys studying math and wants to be a nurse one day. Mabinty's biggest prayer request is for God to give her wisdom and understanding.

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.