Sha’ibu Isa Abdullahi is a fourteen years old boy with disability from Wase local government of plateau state who have nine other siblings and he is the only one with disability.
In as much as he is a person with disability, he has been working hard to support his parents for keeping him in school. In this interview with our correspondents, Bulus Bala Izang and Joshua Yenle, you will see how Sha’ibu Isa have supported his parents financially to pay his school fees.
TQM. Sha’ibu, are you going to school?
Yes.
TQM. What is the name of your school?
Dan- baram primary school Wase.
TQM. In what class are you?
I am in primary four.
TQM. When you grow up, what do you want to become?
I want to be a teacher.
TQM. Who is taking you to school?
I go by myself, I have a tricycle that I ride to school.
TQM. Do other children in school make fun of you because you cannot walk?
Yes.
TQM. What do you do, when they say things that you don’t like?
I don’t do anything.
TQM. After school, do you help your mother and father with work at home?
Yes.
TQM. What kind of work do you do?
I sell biscuits, sweets and bubble gums.
TQM. Do your father and mother have a shop of selling these things?
No, it is my own, I am selling them in front of our house.
TQM. You are in school and you are selling these things to get money?
Yes.
TQM. When you get the money, What are you going to buy with the money?
I normally give profit to my mother to pay my school fees with it.
TQM. If someone come to your school and home, and wishes to assist, what would you ask for.?
I would tell him to give plenty money to pay my school fees.
TQM. Thank you Sha’ibu, I pray, that a big man would come and pay for Your school fees.
