Janet Asibi, also known as The Sewing Teacher and Ama Val, is a national service person who was posted to the Nsoatre SDA primary school situated at Bono Region.
Information available indicates that, when she arrived at the school, Janet realized that some of the pupils attended school with either worn out uniforms or no uniforms at all.
She, therefore, decided to be of help by getting a sewing machine that she had learned to use, to sew uniforms for the pupils at absolutely no cost.
“This disheartening development of seeing these young ones whom we refer to as future leaders walk to school in torn clothes compelled me to put my skills in sewing to use,” she said.
She considered finding solutions to this challenge a collective responsibility thereby engaging in sewing new school uniforms for each and every child in need from her personal funds and with the support from friends and loved ones.
School uniform per child currently costs her 50 Ghana cedis and sometimes less depending on the school.
Ama Val carries out the project successfully through partnering with another seamstress whom she pays. She engages her service in other not to overburden herself as a teacher.
It is her dream to expand this project she dubbed “One Student; One School Uniform” to other affected students in other schools in Ghana.
Janet Asibi is currently undertaking this project with one manual sewing machine which she transports from school to school.
In another captivating story, Emmanuel Binditi, a Ghanaian young man who used to work as a security officer at SSNIT in 2015 but always dreamt of becoming a medical doctor has successfully ventured into the medical field.
According to Theghanareport.com, Emmanuel is the firstborn of seven children and life has been extremely difficult for him in Accra right from the time he was brought by his dad to seek quality education.
