Teenager defies odds to chase dream [Video]

15-year-old Remember Akakpo is defying all odds to complete her Junior High School (JHS) education despite the horrific memories of the canoe disaster that claimed the lives of nine school children at Faana, an island community at Bortianor in the Ga South Municipality in the Greater Accra Region, last year.

A year after that harrowing incident, Remember remains the only student who still embarks on that deadly voyage from Fanaa to Mpoase just to acquire her basic school certificate.

Prior to the disaster, Remember and about 60 other children used to travel across a canal that separates Faana in Ga South and Wiaboman, near Pambros Salt Industries Ltd, in the Weija-Gbawe Municipality on board a canoe to and from school.

However, the ramifications of the tragedy had retired the rest of the children from this high-risk adventure, leaving little Remember, a Form Two student at the Vision Redeemers Academy branch …