Mariama Jalloh

ID: SLGM016

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2011-05-09

Status: Vulnerable Child

I want to be a doctor.

I enjoy playing clapping games.

My favorite subject is mathematics.

Mariama lives with her mother and father. Her mother is a hairdresser and her father provides public transport on a motorbike. Mariama is the oldest of three children, so her parents are able to start her in school each year, but Mariama is asked out when the balance is due. Her parents struggle to provide for their family, and they have times when there is not money to eat even once a day. Mariama loves going to school, so she is very sad when she is asked out until the next payment can be made. She is currently in Class 2. Mariama would like to be a doctor when she grows up.

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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