10 angels from heaven wouldn’t have been enough to ‘convince’ him that he would have the tiniest bit of chance at the world’s biggest health care university; the Johns Hopkins University.

Call it a dream come true from hardwork and perseverance; George Mwinnya, the last of 32 children, from a remote village in Nandom in the UpperWest, is making strides today and making a difference globally.

Electricity was a privilege in his village, in his case peculiarly, he literally had to put together pieces of used soap from his peers to be able to bath, beg for a pen in school to write and hawk on the streets of Accra to survive.

He travelled a rather long path for his education, first earning a slot from his ‘hawking-earned-monies’ for forms for school. He was given a chance as a health worker in a village in Takoradi after school and through volunteering he got a shot at studying in America.

His woes were far from done even at this point, he took up a janitorial job and subsequently applied for school. Classes, exams, name it, he fought his way through to community colleges in Nevada, finally earning a scholarship to Johns Hopkins University; the pinnacle of his goals.

George Mwinnyaa tells an intriguing story of his climb from the ‘mud’ to the ‘sky’ in this edition of ‘People & Places’.

Watch out for full interview on Tuesday August 13 on GhanaWeb TV