Fifteen-year-old, Lafoga Savea, of Vaitele, is a young girl whose dreams have been shattered by her family’s financial problems.
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She was a student at Vaimea Primary School before she was asked to stay home, because her parents could not afford to pay her registration fees. “I enjoyed going to school,” she said.
“I’ve told my mum a number of times that I wanted to go to school like most kids, but she told me that we don’t have enough money.” The 15-year-old is the second child out of eight children.
“Not being able to go to school is not a good thing for me because I’ve always wanted to work at a bank. Now that I don’t go to school anymore, I know I will never be able to make that dream come true.” The teen now believes she will be stuck at home doing chores for the rest of her life.
“I wanted to be educated so I could get a good job [but] I don’t think that’s ever going to happen. All I do now is stay home and cook for the family.” The street vendor felt life was unfair for her. “There are eight of us [children] with our parents at home…our father is the only one with a job. We don’t get enough money from the goods we sell and from our father’s job, because there’s eight of us.”
The street vendor wanted to see her younger siblings get to go to school and become successful.
“I don’t want my younger siblings to go through what my older siblings and I are experiencing. We will do whatever it takes, so that they won’t have to go down the same path as us. I want to see them go to school and be educated.”
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