Ramatulai Turay

ID: SLGM049

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2014-09-05

Status: Paternal Orphan/Vulnerable Child

I want to be a doctor.

I enjoy washing dishes.

My favorite subject is mathematics.

Ramatulai lives with her mother who earns income from her garden. Ramatulais's father died from the Ebola virus during the outbreak when she was 3 months old. Her mother has 5 children, and she struggles to provide for their family as a single mom. Ramatulai is able to attend school, but she is asked to leave when the next tuition payment is due. Once her mother has gathered enough money, she can resume at school which causes lapses in her learning. Thanks to her sponsorship, she has been able to continue her education. Ramatulai wants to be a doctor in the future. Ramatulai is in Nursery 3 (3rd year of Pre-K), and her favorite subject is Math. Her favorite thing to do is wash dishes after school.

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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