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Ramatulai Fullah
ID: SLGM035
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2015-04-23
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be a nurse.
I enjoy cooking.
Ramatulai lives with her mother and father. Both parents have small petty trading to earn their living. Even with both parents bringing in income, it is still not enough to provide for their family's basic needs and send Ramatulai to school. Ramatulai is able to start nursery (pre-k) school to prepare her for primary school, but the fees are too much for her parents. Ramatulai wishes she could be in school with her friends. She wants to become a nurse 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.