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Mariama is a smart and intelligent girl who lives with her mother and siblings in a deprived community in the northern part of Sierra Leone. Both parents have divorced. They live in a three bedroom mud bricks house with unpaved dirt floors. They access toilet facilities from the neighboring house. Her mother sells assorted local foodstuffs in the local market. The income she earned is inadequate to meet the basic needs of the family. They usually get their drinking water from a hand pump well which is about half a kilometer away. Mariama is attending in one of the primary schools in her community. She is in good health and sleeps with her mother on a locally made wooden bed with no proper beddings. With sponsorship, Mariama will have a brighter future.