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Princess Kamara
ID: SLGM021
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2013-01-29
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be an attorney.
I enjoy singing.
Princess lives with her mother. Her father could not provide for their family, so he abandoned them. Currently, her mother does small business trading to support them, but she cannot afford to pay for school tuition, uniform, school supplies and other school fees, in addition to meeting their basic needs. Princess was old enough to be able to begin Kindergarten this year, but her mother could not afford to send her. Princess is anxious to begin school. She wants to become an attorney in the future. 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.