Six-year-old gets support following The Spectator appeal

The dream of a six year old girl to become a teacher, in future has started as two philanthropists have offered to sponsor her education to any levels considering the poverty level of her parents.

Instead of walking about three kilometres every day of the week to access education like five of her brothers do daily which she cannot Ms Patricia Yaa Asantewaa Mensah has now heaved a sigh of relief following the intervention of the two good-natured persons. 

She currently schools at a nearby private school which is located only a few metres from her home, at Mexico in the Kpone Katamanso Municipality in the Greater Accra Region.

Little Asantewaa a Kingdergarten Two pupil in an interview with The Spectator on Monday said she was happy that help had come to her because, “she has small legs which can not walk long distances though she strongly desires to go to school”.

She promised to learn hard so that she could become a teacher to teach more children to become like her in future and asked for God’s blessings on her benefactors. 

Her mother, Mrs. Grace Mensah also said getting her only girl child out of her eight children to go to school had always been a headache for her because she believed education was the only way her family and especially her girl-child could come out of poverty.

She said she dreaded allowing her little daughter to walk such a long distance to school.

She said she could not afford paying for transportation for her and so she was happy when The Spectator put some of their challenges across which touched the hearts of people to support them in one way or the other with the most significant being sponsoring Asantewaa’s education. 

Mrs. Mensah said her husband who she has all eight children with had travelled for over a year with no news of his return or remitting them thus making life extremely difficult for them.

She was thankful to God, The Spectator and the two philantropists who have decided to remain anonymous for now.

The Spectator published the story about the plight of a  family of eight children and a mother who were needy and struggled to feed and walked a long distance to school daily. They, therefore, appealed for help from public spirited persons.

From Dzifa Tetteh Tay, Gbetsile Mexico.