4 - 5 years No free state education. Only wealthy parents send their children to school. For the few who go to school , sex education might be available in school. During this time 90 per cent of girls undergo Female Genital Mutilation. 16 years Most girls are married by this age, especially those who haven't been to school, they may already be mothers.
Girls have limited access to contraception and they have to pay.
Unsafe abortions in Sierra Leone are very common. Very few women will have the option of a government subsidised education. Most stay at home and are unemployed. There is no free medical care nor financial help for the unemployed, homeless, disabled or disadvantaged. Many women will have had two or three children by now.