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Yenkay Kalokoh
ID: SLGM068
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2017-01-01
Status: Paternal Orphan
I want to be a nurse.
I enjoy playing balance ball (dodge ball).
Yenkay lives with her mother and stepfather. Her father passed away when she was 2 years old. Yenkay’s mother grows and sells vegetables. Her stepfather is a construction worker, but he chooses not to provide for her education because she is not his biological child. This is sadly common with stepparents in Sierra Leone. Yenkay’s mother has not be able to make enough money to start her in school yet. Yenkay wants to be a nurse when she grows up. Her favorite activity is balance ball.
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.