The 1993 year group of Okuapeman Senior High School Friday presented a cheque for GH¢1200.00 to support Miss Faustina Badu and her junior siblings in their education.

The group’s executives led by their president Akua Agyeiwaa Botwe included Mrs Angela Affram; Secretary, Frank Obeng Wiredu Organizing Secretary and John Ofosu Awuku, Financial Secretary.

Joy News Dorcas  Boadu reported Faustina Badu, 14, and her sister Juliana both love to go school, but to do this they had to take turns to wear the same severely patched school uniform and a pair of faded sandals.

Faustina's two brothers, Gabriel and Nicolas – five and three years respectively – also share an oversized shirt and shorts to school every day.

The story of the Badu family is replete with moving accounts how abject poverty makes their quest for basic education difficult every step of the way.

Her mother, a farmer, had to go into hiding a few weeks after the death her husband because creditors kept knocking at her door.

Faustina, who is currently in junior high school form 1 took over the care of her three siblings, and that meant thinking like an adult.

To ensure her sister goes to school, she wears the uniform to school in the morning, her sister wears it in the afternoon.

On days that lessons drag and the teacher dismisses the class late, Faustina's sister would already be waiting for her at the back of the school block for the uniform. They have been doing this for over a year.

Presenting the cheque Mrs Agyeiwaa Botwe said the members of the group were touched when they heard the plight of the two girls and quickly mobilized some funds to support them.

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