"Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person." Mother Teresa
Borrower Stories
Felicia Assawante, OfankorShe rises at 5 am to start preparing kenke, a staple food of cornmeal baked in corn husks. She will bake for 5 hours to make 40 pieces of Cape Coast kenke that she will sell for about 20 cents each. Her children are up at 5 as well, to sweep the house and fetch water before school. At noon, she begins baking a second variety of kenke, which is not finished until 9 PM. While she is baking, she fries fish to sell. The children return from school and fetch water a second time. At 5 or 6 PM, she has dinner with her children, and they leave to sell on the highway. Felicia will join them until 9:30 or so. At 10, it's off to bed.
Felicia also sews by request. She is especially adept at remaking old clothes. She uses her sister's sewing machine because hers became wet and was ruined.
Her children attend a public grade school, a private junior secondary school, and university. Her brother helps her pay for the junior high school, but she pays all of the other school expenses. She has no savings in case of emergency.