Meet Vedze Gershon, The 26years old man in J.H.S Two (2), but vows to …

Mr. Vedze Gershon

If education, and for that matter, life, is to be a race, Vedze Gershon, a 26 year old man who is also a student of Fievie Junior High School in the South Tongu District of the Volta Region, could have been termed as the “last man standing” but the avowed man who seem to have an unfinished business, educationally, says that’s not The case, because with the vision in sight, nothing should stop one from aiming high. Not even age, which is just but a number.

Mr. Vedze granting an interview to Felix

In sharing what can be termed as a pathetic story, and a setback for him not climbing high the educational ladder in terms of stage or class, Mr. Vedze Gershon revealed that, he entered school at an early age, but when he reached Basic Five (5), his biological father sent him to one village by name Mafi-Agotokor in the Volta region to rear cattle for five years.

Five years later, upon returning to his father, when he, Vedze Gershon, insisted on going back to school, his father once again, refused him the opportunity and sent him to Yeji, a community widely and largely known for as being the hub for trafficked children, and issues of child labour.

At Yeji, he stayed with an unknown man with whom he went fishing with for a period of one year, six months before coming back home. Upon returning, he enrolled as a student with one community school in Tefle, a town in the South Tongu District of the Volta Region. He pointed that, his days with this community school was again shortened, largely , because he couldn’t raise enough money to carry him through, and the distance he had to cover on a particular day was also discouraging. So he finally took a transfer to where he is now, thus Fievie J.H.S.

He attested that, the whole process has not been without hiccups. “Sometimes, the feeling that you are in class with people who can be termed as your younger brothers and sisters nearly sent me out of school, but determination has carried me this far”, aside these emotions stricken phenomenon, he also raised as a major problem, his difficulty in raising money to cater for his educational needs, because he at the moment is the sole funder for such needs. “Nobody helps, not even my father”  This situation he pointed have sent a colleague who he has for years bore these periods of difficulty with out of school.

Vedze like any other person or student has a dream to meet, but for him, the further he can dream is to become and elder in his local church, a process he had already set in motion, because as I write now he is a deacon in his church. Upon my insistence that he comes out with something that can be taken as a profession, he paused for some minutes and amused me with the declaration, “I want to become a tailor”.

Mr. Vedze with some colleague students

NB: if you are in any way touched by Brother Vedze’s story and would want to be of help, by helping him meet some of his educational needs, contact me for the needed direction.

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