Precious Koroma

ID: SLGM029

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2012-07-12

Status: Social Orphan

I enjoy studying.

My favorite subject is creative arts.

Precious lives with her grandmother who does small business trading. Both of Precious' parents abandoned her because they could not provide for her, leaving her to be cared for by her grandmother. Her grandmother is doing her best to provide for herself and her grandchildren living with her, but she is not able to meet their daily needs and consistently afford school costs. Precious is able to attend school, but is asked out anytime school fees are due, creating lapses in her learning. Precious is currently in Class 2, and her favorite subject is creative arts. Thanks to her sponsorship, she has been able to continue her education.

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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