Mariama Kamara

ID: SLGM071

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2017-10-27

Status: Paternal Orphan

I want to be a lawyer.

I enjoy studying.

My favorite subject is English.

Mariama lives with her grandmother who is a petty trader. Her father passed away when she was only a year old, and her mother decided to leave Mariama with her grandmother when she couldn’t provide for her. Mariama’s grandmother cannot provide both her basic needs and schooling, but she has been able to pay her fees a little at a time. Unfortunately, Mariama is asked out of school each time money is due, and she has lapses in her education until her grandmother can come up with more money. Mariama is in Nursey 3. Her favorite subject is English, and she wants to be a lawyer when she grows up. Mariama loves studying after school.

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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