2 of 2 Shares Sponsored
Zainab Timbo
ID: SLGM051
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2015-08-21
Status: Vulnerable Child
I want to be a nurse.
I enjoy playing balance ball (dodge ball).
Zainab lives with her mother, father, and baby sister. Her father is a commercial driver, but work is not always consistent. Zainab has reached the age to begin nursery school, but her parents can not afford to send her to school. Zainab is eager to attend school so she can learn with her friends. Thanks to her sponsorship, she has been able to continue her education. She wants to be a nurse in the future. Her hobby is balance ball (dodgeball).
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.