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Mariama Bangura
ID: SLGM079
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2016-03-24
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be a doctor.
I enjoy playing with my friends.
My favorite subject is Art.
Mariama lives in Monkey Bush village with her mother whom she loves more than anyone. Her mother cares for a garden to try to provide for Mariama. Mariama’s favorite color is blue, and her favorite food is rice and soup. She enjoys playing with her friends but is eager to start school. Her biggest wish is to become a doctor someday.
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.