MY STORY

I am a girl of 14years old and I’m attending Junior Secondary School. My father has a friend who comes to the house almost every day. One day he said that his only daughter who is some few months older than me would be happy to have me as a friend since she’s the only girl and needs company. She has two brothers.

One Easter, he brought his daughter to the house, we played together and none of us wanted to leave the other when we had to go home, so my parents decided that I went with them since she’s alone and I agreed happily.

Three days after, the man started touching my breasts and my buttocks anytime we met in the house. I was so confused, so I told his daughter. I didn’t know it would rather turn me against her; she yelled at me and said I should go back to my house. I told my father about it but he wouldn’t believe me.

A week later, I just returned from the bathroom only to see him in our room pretending he was leaving, he locked the door and forcible had sex with me, holding my mouth. I started bleeding and he sent me to a nearby clinic. When my father called to ask of me he told him that I was raped by somebody else so he has taken me to clinic and that I don’t even know the one who did it. When I recovered, bought plenty things for me and gave me some money not to tell anybody.

To my surprise, my parents didn’t believe my story and even accused me of stealing the man’s money. In the end this man and her daughter said I stole the money from their house and that I am a bad girl who just wants to disgrace their family.
Not even my parents believed my story. Poor me!

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I am a sixteen (16) years old boy. I lost my mother when I was in J.H.S 1 second term. My uncle took me to his house and was taking care of me. After some time, I had to sell some items for his wife when I closed form school.
On bad days, when I wasn’t able to sell all the items, I wasn’t given money to school and had to wait till supper was ready. We are 4(four) in the house; my uncle, his wife, their son and me.

Later I discovered that my uncle didn’t have any gainful employment so the wife, being a trader, took care of feeding in the house. It therefore happened that I had to absent from school when I didn’t get money. At times, for a whole week, I absented myself from school.

My school uniform got worn out and torn and since a whole term passed by because I didn’t have a uniform to wear that was the end of my J.H.S education. I am now 17years. My friends (Class mates) are in their Second year (J.H.S 2). I want to continue education. Please help me.


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My father and mother are no more together. I have been staying with my mother and two my tow siblings until a year ago when my father asked me to come and stay with him in Accra.
I am now in JHS 1. My stepmother has never liked me. During the last vacation, I went to spend the holidays with my mother in the central region, when I returned to Accra, I didn’t find my clothes in the room so I was looking for them and asking for them a child in the house told me that my stepmother went to burn some things but my school bag was among. I went to check the place where the things were burnt and to my surprise, my things were all burnt including my school uniforms, textbooks, school bag and everything that my mother bought for me.

Though my father couldn’t believe what had happened he didn’t say anything and he just went to buy new things for me including panties. I felt my body has also been burnt because I was empty and hopeless

When school re-opened, I went to school in mofty (plane clothes and when I narrated the story, my step mother was invited but she didn’t go.
Now, I’m no more in that school, my father said I shouldn’t go to that school again but he will look for another school for me, or send me back to my mother.