Ghana: On refuse-road en route to school
- Posted on Monday 19 September 2011 - 21:15Francisca Nuvor, VoicesofAfrica mobile alumna in Accra, Ghana7-year old Kofi and his younger sister walk on a road turned into a refuse dump every day to join their school. The two kids can’t afford public transport like the some of their classmates do.Loading video...This refuse dump which has become a place of work for some men and women behind the Achimota new station in the city of Accra has also now turn into an easy access road for school children like Kofi and his sister.
As I interviewed the two kids on their way back from school, they were comfortably eating maize, irrespective of the health hazards. Kofi told me that this is the only accessible road they use to and after school every day.
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