In this adventure of Everyday People, GhanaWeb's reporter, Eugenia Diabah, affianced 70-year-old Richard Homefa, who did not acquiesce his bootless career to avert him from acute on and afterwards in life
According to Richard Homefa, he confused from Sekondi to Accra on October 24, 1975, adage it wasn't a bland ride as he navigated his way through activity in the city
"I larboard Sekondi for Accra on October 24, 1975, and backward with my mother and stepfather for some time. My stepfather accustomed a arrangement to assignment at Lome. My mother capital me to go with them, but I banned and backward with my brother in Accra. Through the hustling, I got my aboriginal job in Accra as a abundance boy in Circle and I was paid GHC1.00 every day," he said
Mr. Richard connected that, alternating the way, he was betrayed by a woman who he anticipation had his best interests at heart, and that betrayal led to his cobbler business, which he has been operating for over 50 years
"I was alive with this woman at Circle, who came up with an abstraction to save the GHC1.00 I acceptable every day. According to her, that money would be acclimated to fix my larboard leg. I agreed, but afterwards some months, I actively bare money so I went to her to ask for my savings. She never gave me the money afterwards activity aback and alternating with her, so I abdicate my job. I remembered that back I was in Sekondi, I acclimated to appointment the bastille address and brightness the officials' shoes, so I absitively to alpha a business here, and that's how I started with this job," he told the reporter
Over the 50 years of actuality a cobbler, he has reaped benefits, which accommodate allotment the apprenticeship of his seven children, with some acceptable agents and nurses
In accession to his achievements, he has congenital bristles houses and boasts that back he started his shoe adjustment business, he has never been a tenant
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