Poverty forces siblings to share same old school uniform

14-year-old Faustina Badu and her sister Juliana has revealed that due to poverty they have to take turns to wear the same severely patched school uniform and a pair of faded sandals to school.

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 repletes with moving accounts of how abject poverty makes their quest for basic education difficult every step of the way. But it is not the lack of uniforms, sandals or books that plague these four children: they are almost always also hungry while in class.

Narrating her ordeal to Joy News' Dorcas Boadu, Faustina says their woes started after the death of their father a year ago.

Her mother, a farmer, had to go into hiding a few weeks after the death of her husband because creditors kept knocking at her door. Faustina, who is currently in JHS 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.