Yealie Sesay

ID: SLGM059

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2011-08-18

Status: Vulnerable Child

I want to be a teacher.

I enjoy gardening.

My favorite subject is mathematics.

Yealie lives with both her mother and father. Yealie's father is a carpenter, and her mother is a petty trader. Combined, they are still unable to provide sufficiently for their 3 children. Yealie is able to attend school, but once more fees are needed to continue, she is asked out until her parents can raise the funds to help her return. Yealie also needs to help her mother each day with her business. She helps her sell food around the community after school. Yealie hopes to be a teacher in the future. Thanks to her sponsorship, she has been able to continue her education.  Yealie's favorite subject is Math. 

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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