Mwotmi John is eight years old girl with physical disability from Garkawa in Mikan local Government of Plateau State. She have six other brothers and sisters and their father is dead, they all rely on the mother to survive.
In a brief chat with our correspondents Bulus Bala Izang and Joshua Yenle, she spoke on the ways have been carried from one point to the other by her mother because she does not have a wheelchair.
TQM. Have you started going to school?
No, but my brothers and sisters are going to school.
TQM. Can we know why you are not going to school?
The school is very far so, I cannot go.
TQM. Do you want to be going to school with your brothers and sister?
Yes, but they cannot carry me, they will get tired of me.
TQM. Do you have a tricycle or wheelchair?
No.
TQM. Do you have friends that you play with?
Yes.
TQM. If you want to go and play with your friends, how do you go about it?
I crawl with hands on the ground.
TQM. Do you go to church?
Yes.
TQM. How do you go to church?
My mother carry me on her back to church.
TQM. Would you like a Big man to buy a Tricycle for you, so that your mother doesn’t have to be carrying you on her back when you want to go to church?
Yes
TQM. You can even start going to school with it, and nobody would have to carry you on their back again. You will be sitting and riding your tricycle to wherever you want to go.
TQM. TQM is praying that, God would bless a Big man who will buy a tricycle for you.
Amen!
