Place Freetown

Age 8

Gender Female

Favorite Color red

Favorite Subject at School English

Favorite Activity or Game playing

Grade Class 2

Number of Sisters 1

Number of Brothers 1

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Mamie lives with her parents and brother in a single-room house in Mambo, a village community in the southern part of the country near the border of Liberia.  Like many remote villages in Sierra Leone, it lacks access to both clean drinking water and electricity.  Her father works at a construction site as a laborer while her mother sells peanuts in the local market. 

Despite their efforts, they struggle to meet the needs of their family, so Mamie and her brother help out with chores, such as fetching water and cleaning the house.