Fuseni and Opoku<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nHe said in a day he makes about one hundred and fifty Ghana Cedis out of which he earns 25 Ghana cedis every day, and spends 10 Ghana cedis on food.<\/p>\n
He doesn\u2019t have to worry about money for transportation because he walks home, which is all the way in Madina.<\/p>\n
He said he has been selling for a year now, and has been able to save up to 500 Ghana cedis.<\/p>\n
He also added that he has plans of learning a vocation in tiling.<\/p>\n
\u201cI come here seven days in a week to sell, I dropped out of school because my parents could not support me so I left Kumasi for Accra to come live with my uncle, to hustle and make some money. My uncle\u2019s wife makes the Brukina, I sell for her, she takes her cut and gives me mine. There are really bad days when cars drive away with my money because the green light came on before I could get my money. Just last week someone was knocked down by a motorbike. It is sad but we live by God\u2019s grace and faith,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Fuseini, who is popularly known as \u2018Hyspirit\u2019 by his friend for his incredible\u201d Kasahari\u2019\u2019(rap) skills is 18-years, he sells for a woman who is quite generous to him and a couple of other children who also sell for her.<\/p>\n
He said she gives them a place to sleep and also cooks for them three times in a week.<\/p>\n
He said there are very good days where he makes up to 250 Cedis which means he doubles his regular cut which is around 25 Ghana cedis to 50 Ghana Cedis.<\/p>\n
He was generous enough with a little of his selling to give me very entertaining freestyle in Kasahari [Rap] and I was very impressed.<\/p>\n
He later played some of his studio recorded songs which he had on his phone for me to listen, and all the other children sang along.<\/p>\nResting hawkers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cI have been selling since last year [2017] August, the woman I sell for is very generous, she accommodates me and nine others and she also cooks for us, there are very good days I make more. I am not afraid of selling here because God will not bring me all the way from the house to allow me to die on these roads. He would have killed me before I get here, so God is the one watching us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said he is still pursuing his music career along-aside his daily street hawking.<\/p>\n
In as much as I do not support street hawking most especially children hawking, I really admire their bravery, but these busy roads are no place for an adult talk-less of a child.<\/p>\n
The government has to revisit the issue of street hawking most especially when it comes to these little ones.<\/p>\n
These kids deserve more than having to come face to face with these deadly roads on daily basis.<\/p>\n
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By: Farida Yusif\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Street hawking is nothing new to the big city of Accra and its busy roads, and very few people find something wrong with it because it is more\u00a0convenient for people, than it is chaotic for roads and dangerous for the hawkers, especially children. You can cancel a few things off your shopping list while commuting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":409245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[374,11],"tags":[17831,3,17830],"yoast_head":"\n
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