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Ramatu Kanu
ID: SLGM073
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2017-10-27
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be a lawyer.
I enjoy playing balance ball.
My favorite subject is Art.
Ramatu lives in the village of Monkey Bush with her mother and three siblings. Her mother is a petty trader but cannot adequately provide for her family. Ramatu loves to play balance ball and help with chores around the house. Her favorite color is orange, and her favorite food is rice and stew. Ramatu hopes to become a lawyer 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.