There are different preferences and choices in this world. While some believe in educating their children to become better people in future, others believe that, perhaps, building a house for their children is the best decision.

On this episode of Everyday People on GhanaWeb TV, Hannah Hagan, a brassiere vendor shares why she believes in educating her children rather than building a house for them.

She believes that educating her children to be better people in the future can empower them to build their own houses rather than risking the property being neglected by family when she’s no longer alive.

Speaking to GhanaWeb’s Victoria Kyei Baffour on the latest episode, she said “When you educate your children, no one can take that away from them. If I say I am going to build a house, I know I will surely die one day, and my family can take the house from my children. But if I educate them, it’s different.”

The single mother of three shared that two of her children have already completed university, while the third is currently studying at the University of Ghana, Legon emphasizing how education has significantly benefited her family.

“One of my children has already completed technical university, another has finished nursing school, and the third is currently at Legon. This shows that education has truly helped me,” she shared in Twi.

Hannah also took the opportunity to advise her fellow women to prioritize the education of their children over buying things like funeral clothes, as well as other things she finds unnecessary.

“The encouragement I’ll give to my fellow women is this: as a mother and a single parent, I became a single mother when my last child was six months old. So, I have been a single mother for about thirty-four years, and that child is now twenty-four years old. Do not be swayed by things like funeral clothes and other distractions. Work harder to take care of your children because our system is not like abroad,” she said to the reporter.

Watch Hannah Hagan’s full interview with GhanaWeb’s Victoria Kyei Baffour below:





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