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Salaimatu Mansaray
ID: SLGM039
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2015-08-05
Status: Double Orphan
I want to be a police officer.
I enjoy playing balance ball (dodge ball).
My favorite subject is mathematics.
Salaimatu is a double orphan. Both parents died when she was very young, and she lives with her aunt. Her aunt works as a petty trader. She wants to help Salaimatu go to nursery school (pre-k), but it is very expensive, so she pays a little at a time to allow her to go. When the next payment is due, Salaimatu is asked out of school until her aunt can earn the money to pay the balance. Salaimatu wants to become a policeman in the future. Her favorite subject is Mathematics. 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.