Melvina Williams

ID: SLGM012

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2010-06-01

Status: Vulnerable Child

I want to be a lawyer.

I enjoy playing clapping games.

My favorite subject is English.

Melvina lives with her mother and her younger sister. Her father abandoned the family because he could not provide for them. Melvina's mother is a caterer, but as a single mom, she is not able to completely provide for their basic needs and send them to school. When her mother raises the funds to enroll Melvina in school, it is not the full amount, and Melvina is asked out of school until her mother can pay more towards the balance. Melvina has completed Class 2. She enjoys being in school, and she is very sad when the administration asks her out of school because of lack of payment. Thanks to her sponsorship, she has been able to continue her education. Her favorite subject is English and she enjoys playing clapping games.

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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