{"id":1202119,"date":"2022-09-11T06:36:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T06:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/11\/single-mom-with-1st-class-degree-resumes-street-hawking-after-national-service\/"},"modified":"2022-09-11T06:36:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T06:36:38","slug":"single-mom-with-1st-class-degree-resumes-street-hawking-after-national-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/11\/single-mom-with-1st-class-degree-resumes-street-hawking-after-national-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Single mom with 1st class degree resumes street hawking after national service \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Priscilla Akwagu, a single mother in Ghana, returned to street hawking after completing national service.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>She overcame several obstacles on her path to higher education, including selling buffloaf, also called as \u201cbofrot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She graduated at the top of her class from the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) despite the difficulties she had in juggling her studies with caring for her young kid financially.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO: SAD: Video pops up showing GH man washing 712 dirty plates daily in Dubai restaurant for a small salary \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Evidently, Akwagu\u2019s first-class degree from one of the country\u2019s prestigious universities did not help her land a better job after she completed her mandatory year of national service, so she had to make the difficult decision to overcome her shyness and return to the streets to resume her hawking business.<\/p>\n<p>She uploaded images of herself doing street selling to the prominent Ghanaian Facebook group Tell It All.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_281029\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-281029\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"5\" class=\"size-full wp-image-281029\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"365\"  data-lazy- src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-11-at-6.28.52-AM.png\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"5\" class=\"size-full wp-image-281029\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-11-at-6.28.52-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"365\"  \/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-281029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Street hawker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>She claims that the purpose of the post was to encourage people to stop moping about and start making positive changes in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t post our stories to show off but to motivate others that they can equally make it with determination. Back to my hawking business after national service and hoping for the best to come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLife is how you mold with your own hands like molded flour. Let\u2019s keep our hopes up and trust in ourselves always,\u201d she wrote on Tell It All.<\/p>\n<p>Her message received a lot of attention, and many people praised her for being an example to other women.<\/p>\n<p>Priscilla was a single mother who worked and went to school full-time.<\/p>\n<p>While she attended UEW Central Region with the intention of providing better chances for herself and her children, she has had to return to hustling despite earning a first-class degree.<\/p>\n<p>But she\u2019s not given up hope. She believes that brighter times are on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Priscilla Akwagu, a single mother in Ghana, returned to street hawking after completing national service. She overcame several obstacles on her path to higher education, including selling buffloaf, also called as \u201cbofrot.\u201d She graduated at the top of her class from the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) despite the difficulties she had in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1202120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1124,2836,3628,17554,1654,1093,1608,185,482,1023],"class_list":["post-1202119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-1st","tag-class","tag-degree","tag-hawking","tag-mom","tag-national","tag-resumes","tag-service","tag-single","tag-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1202119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}