48-Year-Old Woman Plans To Study Nursing As She Joins To Write WAEC Examinations

A 48-year-old mother of 3 is ready to pursue her life long dream of becoming an auxiliary nurse, even if she would starve to achieve her desire of being educated.

An Instagram user with the user name azaaa_firequeen has taken to her page to share a photo of her 48-year-old mother of three who is writing the ongoing West Africa senior school certificate examination.

According to her, this is the first time the 48-year old woman would be sitting for the exam.

The lady revealed that her aunt whom she identified as Christina Samuel is a village farmer, and had no previous education because she was poor and had 3 kids from an early marriage.

Christina Samuel sends her kids to school, depending solely on farming as her source of income.

See her post below;

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My mum's twin sister, Christina Samuel ,a village farmer with no previous education due to poverty and 3 kids from an early marriage, writing her first o level exams waec at 48years . Her first son is a 200level medical student sponsored by her farming . She hopes to study auxillary nursing which has been her life long dream and so after making up her mind, she quit farming this year and sent her kids to family members so that she could study and enrolled in waec. She was willing to starve if it meant studying instead of farming so that she could meet up the curriculum given to her . Initially she was worried about writing waec with her daughter's age mates and also had fears of passing the waec but not being able to finally afford to study the nursing of her dreams seeing how she practically had to save for a year just to register and write her exams without bothering about her son's School fees. Knowing how excited she was , I told her to start afraid, as long as she was determined someday she would be a nurse if she doesn't give up, even if it means studying at 60 when her children must have finished schooling and we might all be financially strong enough to sponsor her . Poverty can limit your ability to achieve your dreams Christiana but it should never stop you from daring to dreaming. I know how hardworking, honest , cheerful and peaceful she is. I know you would have made an amazing nurse if not for the fault in your stars . I just want to encourage her for pursuing her education at last despite age and financial barriers. Please say a word of encouragement for her . @instablog9ja

A post shared by AMADI FAITH (@azaaa_firequeen) on Aug 18, 2020 at 2:39am PDT