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Zainab Kamara
ID: SLGM050
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2016-01-01
Status: Paternal Orphan
I want to be a bank manager.
I enjoy playing balance ball (dodge ball).
Zainab lives with her uncle, a builder. Zainab's father died when she was 2 years old, and her mother could not find sufficient work to provide for her, so her uncle took her in. Zainab's uncle is taking care of many children in his family, and he can not afford to send them all to school. Zainab is ready to begin nursery school, but she is not able due to lack of finances. Thanks to her sponsorship, she has been able to continue her education. Zainab wants to be a bank manager in the future. Her favorite hobby is balance ball (dodgeball) with her friends.
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.