"Walking at least two hours to
Dombole Secondary school sometimes with empty stomachs from Nachiye village"
FORTUNE BAYAN
"My brother I heard you want
to get married, don't try that. Nowadays, things have changed, your children are
your responsibility no one can take care of them unless otherwise. You should rebuild
your future to be brighter."
These are keys issues merged in an
interview with Fortune Bayan, 28, from
Nachiye, Ntcheu.
He was born in a family of four children
who sadly lost mother in 2008. Wind flowed and life zipped in challenges especially
when his father got married to another woman.
"Life was hard at that time. I was staying with my brother, Gift who was pursuing third year of Secondary
education at Dombole and I joined same school in 2010 when I was 16 years old."
Bayan said.
As children how did you survive?
"Our father was providing a little like soap. We used to fetch harvest
remains in people's gardens and sometimes piece labor in exchange for maize and
sweet potato," he responded.
Bayan added that they used porridge, sometimes roasted maize for dinner.
But some relatives broke their house and stole maize flour and other staffs when
they were at school.
"We were forced to left for police turn off. And there God blessed
us with a piece work of roasting maize for porridge, a 50kg bag at MK500. This helped
us a lot", he narrated.
After writing his form four examinations
in 2014, Bayan went back to village to
stay his grandmother.
"Fortunately, Gift was working
at certain bakery in Mphate. It didn't take a while, I found a job at Lungu restaurant
at a pay of MK7000 per month. I should mention here that I didn't pass well in
Malawi school certificate of education. Sometimes I guessed school it's not my issue
then with a salary I was getting I wanted to get married with Emmy Chagaga", Bayan said
Some of his relatives did not accept
the marriage idea and Mary, his sister
advised him and she said
"My brother I heard you want to get married, don't try that. Nowadays,
things have changed, your children are your responsibility no one can take care
of them unless otherwise. You should rebuild your future to be brighter."
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