Mariama Barrie

ID: SLGM023

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2012-03-04

Status: Double Orphan

I want to be a nurse.

I enjoy playing balance ball (dodge ball).

My favorite subject is mathematics.

Mariama lives with her grandmother. Her mother and father both abandoned her so they would no longer have the responsibility of providing for her. Mariama's grandmother works in the garden to sell produce, but it is not enough income to provide for their basic needs and Mariama's schooling. Throughout the year, Mariama is asked to leave school when fees are due, which is embarrassing for her and causes lapses in her learning. Her grandmother works hard to raise some money to put Mariama back in school. Mariama is currently in Class 2 in school. She loves math and wants to be a nurse in the future. Thanks to her sponsorship, she has been able to continue her education.

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.

 

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