"As a young boy, my parents desired to give me the best in life. They worked hard. In fact, in order that they might give me the best, they created a vacuum by exposing me to the care of strangers.
Not too long into the journey of my life, I had started smoking and was exposed to so many bad things at the early stage of my innocent life.
Though, my parents never knew anything. All these vices affected my life adversely. I stopped been a promising child. I became a source of sorrow to my parents. My father gave up on me while my mother would look at me and burst into tears. Neighbours made sure that their children kept a distance. I also lost all hope of ever making any success in life.
Thank God, my story changed when I stumbled on Hon. Sunny Ogwu, when he newly assumed office as SUBEB Chairman, Delta State, Nigeria. A man who knows how its hurts. He was skilled in mending the hopeless pieces of my yielded life. He gave me what no one had given me and I had a great peace.
He helped me, encouraged me and gave me the love that I had lacked. He advised me and asked me to go and acquire skill that can help me to be a man and also combat the challenges of life.
He encouraged me to apply for YAGEP Program and expedited on it just to make sure that my name is shortlisted. Through YAGEP, I learnt a skill that is not only feeding me and my immediate family but my relatives that abandoned me.
When my family members saw that I was cool headed and enhanced financially, they started coming close to me again not just for love but with their financial demands. They are holding me in high esteem in the family.
