Olayinka Pratt

ID: SLGM048

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2016-10-25

Status: Vulnerable Child

I want to be a nurse.

I enjoy playing balance ball (dodge ball).

Olayinka lives with her mother who is physically disabled. Olayinka's father abandoned the family when she was a month old, leaving her mother responsible for their needs. Olayinka's mother is not able to work, so she relies on other people's kindness to help support her family. Olayinka has not been able to attend school because of the financial challenges, but she would very much like to begin nursery school and join her friends. Thanks to her sponsorship, she has been able to continue her education. Olayinka would like to be a nurse in the future. Her favorite hobby is balance ball (dodgeball) with her friends.  

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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