Ghana is still a developing country. Some would call it a third world country. But for Faustina Badu and her Sister, Juliana Badu, they might be living in a fourth world country. Since the death of their father, the breadwinner of the family, she and her younger sister had to go to school on empty stomach and much worse, share the same school uniform and foot wears.

Faustina attends school at Fomsu R/C Primary ‘A’ in Adansi Fomena in the Ashanti Region.

Faustina Badu cries as she recounts hardship of her familly

Faustina is the eldest child of a children of five. According to her, life wasn’t always like this initially. The vicissitudes of life began to take its toll on them after the demise of their father.

“When my father was alive, he used to take care of us. He used to pamper us,” she said

Young Faustina had to call it quits and take a long sojourn from the classroom. To her, it was the end. Education is the key to success but she believed she didn’t have what it takes to go to school everyday. She and her sister was the spot of student ridicule. Her tattered cloth made her buffoonish exterior laughable and students never ceased to pick on them.

Juliana, sister of Fausina Badu laments the ordeal they go through daily as students

At their age when children are catered for by their parents, she and her siblings had to scavenge for snails in the bush everyday to sell at the market for money.

The story is very pathetic especially the fact that Faustina said her sister had to wait for her behind the school anytime they did not close early. Apparently, Faustina and her sister, Juliana, began Ghana’s double track system long before the ministry even conceived of it.

“We don’t mingle with the other students. We fear we will be ridiculed,” she added

Faustina’s siblings, Nicholas and Gabriel also share the same school uniform. Their jobless mother is unable to provide for the family.

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