Lady Who fell pregnant at 14 shares the Big efforts it took for her to bag a teaching degree
- A brilliant Ghanaian lady called Kafui Akude has turned around the fortunes of her life
- Although she gave birth at the early age of 15, Kafui has managed to work hard, study & make it in life
- She is now a trained teacher who is pursuing her law degree and is also a businesswoman inspiring many girls
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Kafui Akude, an ambitious young Ghanaian lady, is living a life of inspiration despite facing challenges that shatter young girls' dreams and lives.
Speaking to Ghanaian's leading news site YEN.com.gh, the brilliant lady revealed that she has three major demands that occupy her life now, including fishmongering, teaching and also schooling as a law student.
Interestingly, all of these happened years after Kafui became pregnant as a teenage girl and gave birth when she was only 15 years of age.
.I became pregnant at the age of 14 years and turn out a mom of 15 years. I believe you can presume how the struggling was especially from an average home raised by a single mom," she recounted to YEN.com.gh.
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How Kafui came out of the pregnancy situation
"From my pregnancy issue, it doesn't detter me, in fact I attended school with the pregnancy gave birth and after three months I joined my mates in jhs form 3 and wrote the basic exam," Kafui recalls.
She then enrolled at a teacher's training college, Teresco at Hohoe, and taught in a village when she got admission to UCC to read English and philosophy.
During her stay at UCC, she hawked in all the traditional halls and hostels and operated a tricycle (brakia) which she sometimes rode in Cape coast town for commercial purposes.
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Currently, she is teaching at Mfantsipim school while beginning her LLB at the University of Cape Coast as a postgraduate programme.
Aside from these, she owns one of the good clothing shops on the UCC campus.
"I still drive the brakia at times and engage in fish selling. I have my own smokehouse whereby the women fisher folks helps me in smoking the fish," Kafui added.
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Source: YEN.com.gh
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