Adom FM’s Afia Pokuaa in a recent interview shared her inspiring story and her ordeals she had to go through before she got to where she is now.
Noting that she endured the worst, she revealed how she had to work as a maidservant at the Osu Children’s Home just to get her SHS education.
She stated that although she brilliantly passed her B.E.C.E and gained admission in Labone Secondary School, was not admitted in the school as a boarder, therefore, how to be commuting from Tema to Accra to the school every day became a herculean task because her parents weren’t rich.
She disclosed that, after all attempts to get her accommodation on campus failed, her father walked into a nearby orphanage to offer her as a maidservant to the caretaker.
“So my father is walking there and he sees Osu Children’s Home … he walks there and says I have a daughter who has gotten admission here but hasn’t gotten boarding so I want her to come live with you like a maidservant. She can cook, she can clean so that she can go to school too and then the woman accepted”, she said in the interview.
She noted how she lived with this ‘unknown’ woman throughout her entire secondary school time.
She,however added that she felt like an orphan who was given away but when she casts her mind back, she understands why her Dad made such a tough decision.
She also stated that she staying in the orphanage’s bungalow was the first time she ever had a room for herself but that came with a lot of work to keep the house clean whilst being a student in Labone.
Source: ghgossip.com
