Zainab Sesay

ID: SLGM060

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2011-04-12

Status: Social Orphan

I want to be an attorney.

I enjoy washing dishes.

My favorite subject is social studies.

Zainab lives with her grandmother. Zainab's parents abandoned her shortly after her birth because they could not cope with the responsibility. Zainab's grandmother is a petty trader and gardener. Her grandmother is not able to adequately provide for Zainab's education. Zainab is able to begin school, but she is asked out each time fees are due. After Zainab's grandmother raises the funds, she is able to return, but this causes lapses in her learning. Thanks to her sponsorship, she has been able to continue her education. Zainab wishes to be a lawyer in the future. Her favorite subject is social studies.  

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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