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Ramatu Kamara
ID: SLGM090
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2016-06-05
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be a doctor.
I enjoy playing balance ball (dodge ball).
My favorite subject is social studies.
Ramatu lives with her mother and two siblings in the village of Monkey Bush in Sierra Leone. Her mom works as a petty trader and struggles to make enough to provide for her family. Ramatu likes to play balance ball with her friends and her favorite color is blue. She hopes to become a doctor one day and her favorite subject in school is Social Studies.
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.