At the Tema bus station in Accra, a water melon seller combs the hair of her daughter and powders her up for school.

Right there on the street, a mother and daughter share a bond called home in the hope her child, through education, will one day lift her old self up out of the depressing effect of poverty and penury.

Myjoyonline.com's David Andoh was there to capture the view fit for the family's own posterity.