My name is Sandra Abbey. I come from a village in Ghana called Okurase. Ghana is in West Africa and my village is in the Upper west Akyem district in the Eastern region of Ghana. I was born on the 1st of September 1995. I have two elder brothers and one elder sister. I am the last of four children by my parent. My parents are divorced. I live with my mother who is a single mother taking care of me and supporting my other siblings. My mother works with a nonprofit NGO in our village as a brick maker. Until she started work with the NGO she was just a peasant farmer and that was how she was fending for us. Because she did not earn much from the farming, she could not pay for my elder siblings to go to school to the tertiary level. The highest education my other siblings have had is the middle of Junior high school. Which means none of them could even complete Junior High. My mother was trained by then NGO, certified and employed by the same NGO to make the bricks to help build an education centre. My mother has been able to support me with her salary from her brickmaking and building work to enable me complete Junior High. I have graduated successfully and need to go to the Senior High then to the University. My mothers work with the NGO has stopped because the building is almost done. I am due to start Senior high school in September 2013. But my mum says she won't be able to pay for it. I am so eager to further my education and not to end up like my big sister who was compelled by our financial difficulty to date a man at an early age and make babies with him so that the man can support her. Even after that, the story is not different, she and my two brothers and their children still depend on our mother. I want to be a nurse in future, so that I can support myself, my mother and my family. I need you to help me to achieve my dream.
School Year 2014
Fabrice is partially an orphan. She lives with her mother who is a peasant farmer and who is not in the position to take her to secondary school due to her poor earning. Fabrice would like to be a jounalist.
School Year 2015
School Year 2013