When I was younger, I really didn’t like to study or go to school. Yet now, I want to go to school so badly yet face so many struggles. I don’t have enough money for supplies, the transportation lasts 2 hours in the roads. Everytime the school asks for tuition, I am sent back home. At the beginning of every semester, my mum and I always worry about how we’ll find enough money. My mother sells second hand clothes in a market where she gets what to feed us and also spare some some for my school fees to go to school.

Every day my mother tells me that without education, I will end up a poor begger. After this, she promises that if I am able to do well, she will do anything she can to support me financially. My mum, using his work money, pays for both me and my sibling's education. My mum works less and less as there is a lower demand for her work. So, she has no choice to find new jobs. At home, I help her with housework- feeding the pigs, finding food for the pigs, making breakfast and dinner. Immediately after eating, my aunt quickly goes to harvest the ground. When I was younger, she was much more youthful and able. However, after these long years, her sickness only gets worse. I have never seen such a couple work so hard to save so little money for our education.

I missed my promotional exams to the candidate class due to lack of school fees. Now, I am scared if she will be able to see me graduate. I hope with my heart that one day she will not be shackled by the constraints of poverty. That one day, we will be happy. Regardless of the challenges I face, I will face them head-on, So that I can repay my mum and provide her with a happy life.

Thanks for listening to my story.