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Theresa Kargbo
ID: SLGM084
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2019-01-12
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be a seamstress.
I enjoy playing balance ball (dodge ball).
My favorite subject is English.
Theresa lives in the village of Monkey Bush in Sierra Leone with her aunt and three siblings. Her aunt works as a gardener and struggles to make enough to provide for her. She loves to play balance ball with her friends and she hopes to become a seamstress one day. Her favorite color is yellow, her favorite subject is English, and her favorite food is rice and okra.
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.