Veronica Banya

ID: SLGM013

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2011-10-15

Status: Vulnerable Child

I want to be a nurse.

I enjoy playing dodge ball.

My favorite subject is English.

Veronica lives with her mother and father. Her father is a full-time student, so her mother has taken the responsibility of supporting the family financially. With his college fees and their family needs, Veronica's mother is not able to consistently pay Veronicas school tuition, uniform, school supplies and other school fees. Veronica enjoys school and being with her classmates, so when she is asked out of school until her parents can pay the balance, she is very sad. Veronica is currently in Class 1. She would like to be a nurse when she grows up. 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.

 

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