User talk:Donald Stephen Friday

"A citizen is not only Base on a person who was born into a particular country; But It also Base on someone whose purpose in life is driving by the betterment of the life of the people in that country, And whose love for the people constrain him daily." I was born in Lagos Nigeria, my home town is ikot Abssi in Akwa- Ibom state. As I grow up back then in Lagos, I notice that I always have this deep love inside of me for the Ghanaian which I just don't understand maybe it might be because of the Ghanaians nicest Friends which I was having back then But as I kept growing in understanding through studying about the country, it well in me that I will be better off in living there than any part of the world. So after I graduated from college ( Niit Computer College ) I set up a computer school for the sole purpose of helping the less privileged in the community through offering them a free courses on computer study, which make more sense till the school was known everywhere ; and countless number of the youths came from all Conner of the community to attend the classes. But since my deep desire of wanting to live in Ghana was so strong in me, it kept ringing in my heart each day till finally I woke up one morning without knowing it, and packed out my logged heading to Ghana without even having a penny in my pocket. So when I got to the pack that very day, I explained myself to the bus driver that Am not having any money with me, but he should take me to Ghana and drop me anywhere, probably where they are selling food so that I can quickly get a job with them; then after a month time, he can come over there and collect his money. So why I was sayings this, he was just looking at me asking himself, what kind of man is this. And I kept sayings the same thing over and over again till finally a man who was coming to Ghana that very day passed by and overheard me talking to the bus driver, stop and asked me if I know anyone in Ghana, and the sole purpose why am going to Ghana, and I told him no ideals at this present moment, but when I get there I will know. He said no problem and he paid for the transportation Fair for me. So when we got to Ghana the next day morning, because we traveled in the night the previous day ; he took me to his house where he was living at middle East- Ashaiman, he gave me something to eat and he introduced me to his family - his wife and eleven children ( nine girls and two boys) living in two bedrooms apartment ; he starts explaining to me that the house is not even enough for him and his family, that he would have allowed me to stay there for a while before getting my own place. So that very day he took me to the main Ashaiman, trying to find if there is any way he can get a kius for me to be staying for the moment ; so while he was making the searched someone told him, that there is this eight years old man living all alone in his own wooden structure house, that he should go and talked to him if possible I can be living there with him for a while. so we decided to try, and amazingly the man didn't even allow us to land in concluding the whole issue, he quickly said to me come, my son, I need someone to live with me. So I start living with this man ( Emmanuel DZEKUNU Tay - The African Champion tennis player in his youthful age 1940-1950). Taking care of him by washing his things and cooking for him; because all his wives have left him, his children are all grown up, mostly girls and they have all gotten married left him all alone in the house. So when I arrived, I was just like a Messiah to him ,washing all his clothes which was mess up, cleaning the whole house which was smelling like a sucker well , and stop him from using the little money that he has bought food always on the street, instead I used it to cook for him. My impact of hard work towards him was so alarming in the neighborhood till they have to be coming in groups to thanks me each day, even the children whom abandoned him because of his neglecting towards them by not sending them to school was touched by my heartfelt rendering service and care towards their father without been paid. And as a result of this my charitable act, they reunite and returned back to their father and forgive him for what he did to them. So after staying with him for a whole year, the families decided that he is too old to remain in the city, that they should send him to his home town to rest. So they demolished the wooden structure which he was living and sold the land, with the money they used it to send home ( Tettekupe in KETA ). Base on how I was taking good care of him, he told the families and pleaded with them to allow me to go with him, that he needed me around him so bad more than any others things. As for me by then, since I have understand Ghana to a certain degree, I didn't want to go with him, but himself and the families pleaded again and again with me that I should go with him, that they will try their possible best there to get me a job so that I can have my own living as well. Then I finally agreed. But when I got there ( KETA) what they promised they couldn't fulfill it, because KETA is dry and there is no job over there, so I had to stay with him for the other one year, still taking care of him the same way I was doing in Ashaiman. But during this one year of staying with him in KETA, that was when my real purpose of coming to Ghana start manifesting. In KETA there is no Jobs just as I previously said; so most of the men there are Fishermen and the women Sell the fish. And this source of income is not enough for everybody, so those that doesn't have any source of income to pusher the fish - as buying and selling; most especially the ladies, and doesn't have a brother or father to joined the Fishermen group; have to give their selves to be used by the Fishermen in exchange of the FISH. So as a result of these, some of the girls have five, some seven children for different men; and this is creating so much trouble for them - herself. Because this men, after sleeping with them in exchange of the FISH, and then notice that she is pregnant, they stop giving them the FISH, and never attend to her again in any needs, and that was how she will be rooming about with the pregnancy looking For food to eat. till the point that she would be grinding just a bare pepper and looks for where she can get back to eat with it; and sometimes even with the pregnancy, she still looked for another man to have sex with her so that she can get FISH to eat with the bare pepper and banku. There is the kind of life styled most of the girls are going through in KETA that landed them having five to seven children to several men. So I happened to come in contact with some of these children and their mothers striving each day to put food on their table And the worse of all, most of these children don't even know their father, and even their mothers don't even know the father of some of their children; because they have slept with so many and they can't be specified. So when I got to KETA it was during the Free education time for the primary and the secondary school's children. So each morning when I came out to brush my teeth, ( pest ) I notice that groups of children in a very long line always passed by with their mothers; so one day I asked someone, where they are going each morning? and this person told me that there is a place inside the village called lagoon, that they go there each morning to catch those thinning fish ( very small in size) to sell to anyone that wishes to buy from them; and they do that each day to survive. Then I asked, why is their mothers not going alone, why are they going with the children? because the children supposed to be in school. The person replied to me was, so that they can catch as many as possible. And it happened several months till I got angry and decided in my heart, that I have to do something about this. So I went to their houses to inquiries from their mom why their children are not going to school even when it is free education, and guess what? Their replied to me was just one and very simple; - " If they leave the lagoon and start going to school would you be feeding them for us "? And they all said the same thing. So I have to go back home and thinks of what to do next, I thought about it for several weeks, then one day I notice that the house I was living with the old man there are some well to do men living there, and also the compound opposite us. ( these men are Doctors, teaching in that KETA hospital ) and because they are always busy, they have to take their clothes and drive to a very far distant for laundry. So I called the attention of these men and told them I know how to do laundry better, that they should be giving it to me instead of driving such a long distance for it; which they agreed. So the very first day I Wash for some of these men, I was given ( 100 CEDI's ). and early in the morning the next day I took it to some of the mothers of these children and said; here is (100 CEDI's) have it and shared it to your children so that they can go to school today; which they did. And happily, some of them went to school that very day and came back running happily to said thank you to me. Then I said to myself, I have to put more efforts on this, probably it might trigger more people to showed concerns towards it. So I began to put pressure on those men so that they can give me more things to wash, even if they don't have clothes, I should Wash their Cars in other to have money and give to some of those children to go to school. That was how I came out with "Operation No Child Will Stay At Home ( ONCWSAH ). Every morning I make sure I go round the whole community to make sure nDonald Stephen Friday (talk) 01:35, 8 November 2019 (UTC)o child stay at home as a result of what to eat at school. I was doing till I left KETA to Accra in search of a better job. Now my staying in Accra, am not through yet; just want to get myself a better job, so that I can go back there and take it to higher level. So am leaving you with this quote of mine ......... "A citizen is not only Base on a person who was born into a particular country; But It also Base on someone whose purpose in life is driving by the betterment of the life of the people in that country, And whose love for the people constrain him daily.

Donald Stephen Friday