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Phebian Kargbo
ID: SLTG012
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2014-08-22
Status: Maternal Orphan
I want to be a nurse.
I enjoy playing dodgeball with my friends.
My favorite subject is Art.
Phebian lives with her aunt who sells provisions at the Tombo market. Her mother passed away when she was a baby. Phebian’s father left her with her aunt three years ago. Her aunt has her own family and kids to care for and cannot adequately provide food and other basic needs for Phebian. Phebian had been going to school but stopped due to lack of funds. She wants to continue if she has the opportunity. Her favorite game is dodgeball, and she hopes to become a nurse.
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.