Ghanaian Man Gets Emotional After Young Street Hawker Asked For Money To Buy Food: "He Must Be In School"

Ghanaian Man Gets Emotional After Young Street Hawker Asked For Money To Buy Food: "He Must Be In School"

  • A video of a young man interacting with a kid he saw working as a street hawker has left many heartbroken
  • The young kid revealed that he was not schooling and had never been to school
  • Netizens who saw the video expressed readiness to support the young kid through school

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A young Ghanaian man was overcome with emotion after he chanced on a young kid of school-going age selling on the streets.

In a video on TikTok, the man, on seeing the kid selling ice cream, sought to find out why he was doing that instead of going to school.

Photo of young street hawker and Ghanaian man
Man offers help to young kid Photo credit:@syprothetwistedfilms/TikTok
Source: TikTok

The kid answered by disclosing that he wasn't a student and had never been to school.

After engaging the kid for a while, the man decided to give him money to buy food.

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He also asked two of his workers to accompany the boy to see where he lives so they could fashion out how to help him going forward.

At the time of writing the report, the video, which was titled "Please let's help the street" had gathered over 36,000 likes and 1,800 comments.

Watch the video below:

Ghanaians express desire to support the young kid

Netizens who saw the video were filled with sadness, as many expressed the desire to support the young boy financially through school.

user8520015451457 stated:

God bless you bro. Pls can I help? I live in USA

Lexi revealed:

Please where are u located? I want to support with a box of drink and biscuits he can take to school when he start..Please let me know..God bless you

persona stated:

Wish i can help but I don't have. Am in love with you for this. GOD BLESS YOU MY GUY

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Minister Mavis reacted:

God bless you for showing love and concern. Let us know the update. We shall get him into school by God’s grace.

Man buys out kenkey of street hawker

Earlier, YEN.com.gh reported that an elderly street hawker was grateful after a young man bought and paid for all her balls of kenkey.

He bought all 37 balls of kenkey in the pan of the street hawker who was still selling by the road as early as 2:40 am.

The young man then urged the woman to go home and rest since it was late.

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Source: YEN.com.gh

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Philip Boateng Kessie (Human-Interest editor) Philip Boateng Kessie started writing for YEN.com.gh in 2022 and is the Head of the Human Interest desk. He has over six years of experience in journalism and graduated from the University of Cape Coast in 2018 with a bachelor's degree in Communication Studies. Philip previously served as a reporter for Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) and as a content writer for Scooper News. He has a certificate in Google News Initiative News Lab courses in Advanced Digital Reporting and Fighting Misinformation. Email: philip.kessie@yen.com.gh.