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Onikeh Koroma
ID: SLTG020
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2017-03-04
Status: Social Orphan
I want to be a doctor.
I enjoy helping around the house.
My favorite subject is Art.
Onikeh lives in the village of Tombo with her aunt and sibling. Her aunt works as a fish trader, and Onikeh helps by fetching water. She loves to help out at home. Her favorite color is blue, and her favorite food is rice. Onikeh cannot wait to start school and hopes to become a doctor one day.
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.