57-year-old mother of four targets SHS after completing BECE
Ghana’s oldest BECE candidate, Elizabeth Yamoah, is truly determined. Many thought she would end her education just after writing her Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). But that’s not the case. She has revealed that she wants to proceed to Senior High School with the dream of becoming a nurse. According to the 57-year-old mother of…
Ghana’s oldest BECE candidate, Elizabeth Yamoah, is truly determined. Many thought she would end her education just after writing her Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
But that’s not the case. She has revealed that she wants to proceed to Senior High School with the dream of becoming a nurse.
According to the 57-year-old mother of four, she said she was mocked by the whole community when she made up her mind to attend school but her determination saw her to the very end.
“When I made up my mind to go to school people in my community mocked me. Some even said that I should leave education for the young ones but I was determined to learn how to read and write and that helped me through my education,” Elizabeth told Citi News.
She enrolled at the Odoben Presby Basic “A” Junior High School and today 18th September 2020, she wrote her final paper and graduated as a Junior High School graduate.
Auntie Lizzy as he’s affectionately called by her mates and teachers said her exemplary determination should be worth emulation by those who also want to pursue their academic goals but been held back with thoughts of being too old.
For her, she has been yearning to achieve academic excellence since she was young but upon the death of her father her dreams were dashed.
She was forced to learn a trade as a means of survival.
The Headmaster for Agona Odoben Presby ‘A’ Basic School, Samuel Quaye told Citi News that he related well with Elizabeth Yamoah despite her age.
According to him, Elizabeth struggled with subjects such as ICT since the school has an empty lab but no computers to teach the students.
“My only challenge with my academic work was that my school has a computer laboratory but we have no computers and we struggled to learn ICT so if benevolent Ghana can help us I will be happy,” Elizabeth also said.
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