{"id":925,"date":"2019-02-21T09:18:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T08:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/100pct.org\/wordpress\/?p=925"},"modified":"2026-04-28T14:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:50:11","slug":"poetry-writing-with-street-children-in-accra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/100pct.org\/english\/poetry-writing-with-street-children-in-accra\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry writing with street children in Accra"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"grve-section grve-row-section grve-fullwidth grve-padding-bottom-1x grve-bg-none\"><div class=\"grve-container\"><div class=\"grve-row grve-bookmark grve-columns-gap-none\"><div class=\"grve-column wpb_column grve-column-1\" ><div class=\"grve-column-wrapper\" ><div class=\"grve-element grve-carousel grve-layout-1\" style=\"\">  <div class=\"grve-carousel-wrapper\"><div class=\"grve-carousel-navigation grve-light grve-navigation-1 grve-navigation-carousel\"><div class=\"grve-carousel-buttons\"><div 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1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div>  <\/figure><\/div>\t  <\/div>\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-background-wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-section grve-row-section grve-fullwidth-background grve-padding-top-1x grve-padding-bottom-1x grve-bg-none\"><div class=\"grve-container\"><div class=\"grve-row grve-bookmark grve-columns-gap-30\"><div class=\"grve-column wpb_column grve-column-1\" ><div class=\"grve-column-wrapper\" ><div class=\"grve-element grve-text vc_custom_1757246143113\">\r\n\t\t\t<p>Lady Gaga, lion's milk and parents; these are things that the street children we work with write poems about. In 2017, we started working with poetry writing to empower street children's voices - and as a way for them to be heard. Two volunteers with academic experience in literary studies came up with the idea, which is now a regular part of our partner's teaching of street children in Accra. The project is called <em>Poetic Empowerment,\u00a0<\/em>and we sell <a href=\"https:\/\/100pct.org\/english\/program\/poetic-empowerment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> a collection of poems that the volunteers have created with the street children. In 2018, they wrote poems every month, which were displayed on 20 November as part of the Children's Day celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, our partner Catholic Action for Street Children (CAS) taught no less than 789 boys and 748 children to read and write: \"Poetry readings, singing and drama have helped the children gain confidence, communicate more effectively and learnt how to work together as a team,\" says CAS.<\/p>\n<p>Hear their voices as expressed in poetry:<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-background-wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-section grve-row-section grve-fullwidth-background grve-padding-top-1x grve-padding-bottom-1x grve-bg-none\"><div class=\"grve-container\"><div class=\"grve-row grve-bookmark grve-columns-gap-30\"><div class=\"grve-column wpb_column grve-column-1\" ><div class=\"grve-column-wrapper\" ><h4 class=\"grve-element grve-title grve-align-left grve-h4\" style=\"\"><span>Respect Your Husband<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>\/Poem by Benice<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-background-wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-section grve-row-section grve-fullwidth-background grve-padding-top-1x grve-padding-bottom-1x grve-bg-none\"><div class=\"grve-container\"><div class=\"grve-row grve-bookmark grve-columns-gap-30\"><div class=\"grve-column wpb_column grve-column-1-3\" ><div class=\"grve-column-wrapper\" ><div class=\"grve-element grve-text\">\r\n\t\t\t<p class=\"caption\">I know some girl<br \/>\nShe does not respect<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Mother, father, family<br \/>\nAnd get five marriages<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Five children<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">She sits down<br \/>\nAnd she thinks<br \/>\nThat my friends gets one Husband<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Three children<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>But me<br \/>\nI get five husbands<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Five children<br \/>\nThat five children<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">She go to look for her destiny<br \/>\nWhen the pastor see her<\/p>\n<p>That old lady I'm talking about<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>She was wounded<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>She was smelling<br \/>\nShe lived in the forest for 30 years<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>And she never took a bath<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">The girl stays with the old<br \/>\nlady for three days<br \/>\nThe old lady performed a<br \/>\nspell, the old lady gets<br \/>\nA cow thigh and give it to the girl<br \/>\nThe girl take the cow thigh<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">The girl, place the cow<br \/>\nthigh front of the lion's cage.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-column wpb_column grve-column-1-3\" ><div class=\"grve-column-wrapper\" ><div class=\"grve-element grve-text\">\r\n\t\t\t<p class=\"caption\">And the pastor says<br \/>\n\"I see that girl before\"<br \/>\nI don't have any help<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>To help her<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">So the pastor couldn't tell her<br \/>\nto her face<br \/>\nAnd the pastor decide<br \/>\nHe gives her a direction<br \/>\nshe can't do<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>And the pastor tell her<br \/>\nGo and bring me a lion's<br \/>\nbreast milk<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">And the girl turned<br \/>\nand leave<br \/>\nAnd the girl said<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Me, I do not have any strength<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>The lion eats when the<br \/>\nlion baby drink breast milk<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">The girl layed on the ground<br \/>\nAnd crawled to the lion<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>and took the lions breast<br \/>\nand pured the milk into a bottle<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">The girl went back home<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>And she went to the pastor<br \/>\nWhen the pastor saw the girl<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">The pastor shouted the<br \/>\ngirls name:<br \/>\n\"EY! BENICE! YOU CAME<br \/>\nBACK! SO NOW GO!<br \/>\nYou marry one man\"<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-column wpb_column grve-column-1-3\" ><div class=\"grve-column-wrapper\" ><div class=\"grve-element grve-text\">\r\n\t\t\t<p class=\"caption\">To bring a lions breast milk<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>So I'm going to kill myself<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">The girl goes into a deep forest<br \/>\nAnd decide to hang herself<br \/>\nWhen the girl take the rob<br \/>\nto her neck<br \/>\nSome old lady shout<br \/>\n\"DON'T KILL YOURSELF! I<br \/>\nWILL HELP YOU.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>But before I help you, you help me,<br \/>\nYou sleep with me in one bed<br \/>\nWe eat from one plate<br \/>\nWe drink from one cup\"<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Every man who sees the<br \/>\ngirl wants to Marry her<br \/>\nBut now she came to get<br \/>\nPlenty of money<br \/>\nPlenty of houses<br \/>\nPlenty of cars<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">So the girl became rich<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>And built many houses<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>And brought many cars<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">The story so far should<br \/>\ngive respect<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>To the man she lives with<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>And the family as a home<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-background-wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-section grve-row-section grve-fullwidth-background grve-padding-top-1x grve-padding-bottom-1x grve-bg-none\"><div class=\"grve-container\"><div class=\"grve-row grve-bookmark grve-columns-gap-30\"><div class=\"grve-column wpb_column grve-column-1\" ><div class=\"grve-column-wrapper\" ><h4 class=\"grve-element grve-title grve-align-left grve-h4\" style=\"\"><span>A girl who live on the street<br \/>\n\/Poem by Gertrude, Cindy and Monica<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-background-wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-section grve-row-section grve-fullwidth-background grve-padding-top-1x grve-padding-bottom-1x grve-bg-none\"><div class=\"grve-container\"><div class=\"grve-row grve-bookmark grve-columns-gap-30\"><div class=\"grve-column wpb_column grve-column-1-3\" ><div class=\"grve-column-wrapper\" ><div class=\"grve-element grve-text\">\r\n\t\t\t<p>When I was a child<br \/>\nMy mother took care of me<br \/>\nShe gave me everything I wanted<br \/>\nLater she left me Alone<br \/>\nSo I did not know what to do<br \/>\nAt the age of 12 years<br \/>\nMy lovely mother died<\/p>\n<p>A Woman called me<br \/>\nAnd said don't worry, I will take care of you<br \/>\nSo in Kumasi the woman sell food<br \/>\nI was staying there for a few months<\/p>\n<p>That place will be a help to get money<br \/>\nSo Lady GaGa left me there<br \/>\nI was soo angry<br \/>\nAnd I don't have money<br \/>\nI had to sleep with a guy<\/p>\n<p>So I met a guy called Beautiful<br \/>\nHe told me about Cas<br \/>\nAnd said<br \/>\nWill I go with him?<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-column wpb_column grve-column-1-3\" ><div class=\"grve-column-wrapper\" ><div class=\"grve-element grve-text\">\r\n\t\t\t<p>The woman started treating me badly<br \/>\nSo I ran away from Kumasi<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>And I got missing<br \/>\nI don't know the place I went<\/p>\n<p>I met a girl called<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Lady GaGa<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>She called me, Hji Hji,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Small girl where are you going this night<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>And I said<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>I don't have anywhere to stay<br \/>\nSo she gave me place to sleep<\/p>\n<p>Early in the morning<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>She wake up and called me<br \/>\nGirl, girl get up, we are going to Kaneshie<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>And I said yes, I will go with you<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>So now im in Cas<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nIm in sponsorship<br \/>\nCas have helped me a lot<br \/>\nSo help me to say thank you to Cas<br \/>\nNow see my life<br \/>\nOOO LO LO LO LO!<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-column wpb_column grve-column-1-3\" ><div class=\"grve-column-wrapper\" ><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-background-wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-section grve-row-section grve-fullwidth-background grve-padding-top-1x grve-padding-bottom-1x grve-bg-none\"><div class=\"grve-container\"><div class=\"grve-row grve-bookmark grve-columns-gap-30\"><div class=\"grve-column wpb_column grve-column-1\" ><div class=\"grve-column-wrapper\" ><h4 class=\"grve-element grve-title grve-align-left grve-h4\" style=\"\"><span>\/Poem by Cletus<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-background-wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-section grve-row-section grve-fullwidth-background grve-padding-top-1x grve-padding-bottom-1x grve-bg-none\"><div class=\"grve-container\"><div class=\"grve-row grve-bookmark grve-columns-gap-30\"><div class=\"grve-column wpb_column grve-column-1-3\" ><div class=\"grve-column-wrapper\" ><div class=\"grve-element grve-text\">\r\n\t\t\t<p>I was nine years<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>When I came to the streets<br \/>\nI came from Kumasi<br \/>\nAnd live at Kanta now<\/p>\n<p>I came to the streets in 2009<br \/>\nI was nine years<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>I have three sisters<br \/>\nI have four brothers<\/p>\n<p>My father is in Accra, he lives in Madina<br \/>\nI live in Kanta<br \/>\nI colour jeans and sell them<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>I earn 5 cedi for on pair of jeans<br \/>\nI sell plenty<\/p>\n<p>Im 18 years old<br \/>\nI was in class six<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>When I stopped going to school<br \/>\nI was selling peer water<\/p>\n<p>My name is Cletus Darko<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-column wpb_column grve-column-1-3\" ><div class=\"grve-column-wrapper\" ><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-column wpb_column grve-column-1-3\" ><div class=\"grve-column-wrapper\" ><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-background-wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-section grve-row-section grve-fullwidth-background grve-padding-top-1x grve-padding-bottom-1x grve-bg-none\"><div class=\"grve-container\"><div class=\"grve-row grve-bookmark grve-columns-gap-30\"><div class=\"grve-column wpb_column grve-column-1\" ><div class=\"grve-column-wrapper\" ><h4 class=\"grve-element grve-title grve-align-left grve-h4\" style=\"\"><span>\/Poem by Linda Amakye, Hopeland<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-background-wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-section grve-row-section grve-fullwidth-background grve-padding-top-1x grve-padding-bottom-1x grve-bg-none\"><div class=\"grve-container\"><div class=\"grve-row grve-bookmark grve-columns-gap-30\"><div class=\"grve-column wpb_column grve-column-1-3\" ><div class=\"grve-column-wrapper\" ><div class=\"grve-element grve-text\">\r\n\t\t\t<p>I helped someone<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>In selling foods<br \/>\nShe treated me bad<br \/>\nThen she threw me<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Out through the door<br \/>\nWay<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That moment, I missed<br \/>\nMy home<br \/>\nMy daddy's love, I'm<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Not a partaker of<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-column wpb_column grve-column-1-3\" ><div class=\"grve-column-wrapper\" ><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-column wpb_column grve-column-1-3\" ><div class=\"grve-column-wrapper\" ><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-background-wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-section grve-row-section grve-fullwidth-background grve-padding-top-1x grve-padding-bottom-1x grve-bg-none\"><div class=\"grve-container\"><div class=\"grve-row grve-bookmark grve-columns-gap-30\"><div class=\"grve-column wpb_column grve-column-1\" ><div class=\"grve-column-wrapper\" ><h4 class=\"grve-element grve-title grve-align-left grve-h4\" style=\"\"><span>Life on the street<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>\/Poem by Osei Emmanuel, Hopeland<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-background-wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-section grve-row-section grve-fullwidth-background grve-padding-top-1x grve-padding-bottom-1x grve-bg-none\"><div class=\"grve-container\"><div class=\"grve-row grve-bookmark grve-columns-gap-30\"><div class=\"grve-column wpb_column grve-column-1\" ><div class=\"grve-column-wrapper\" ><div class=\"grve-element grve-text\">\r\n\t\t\t<p>Many people on the street have two or three reasons why they are there<br \/>\nThere're all kinds of different people on the street<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>They all have different back grounds and ideas<br \/>\nThe same way we have people who are willing to make something beneficial from the street<br \/>\nOthers are also there just because there is freedom<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-background-wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-section grve-row-section grve-fullwidth-background grve-padding-top-1x grve-padding-bottom-1x grve-bg-none\"><div class=\"grve-container\"><div class=\"grve-row grve-bookmark grve-columns-gap-30\"><div class=\"grve-column wpb_column grve-column-1\" ><div class=\"grve-column-wrapper\" ><h4 class=\"grve-element grve-title grve-align-left grve-h4\" style=\"\"><span>\/Poem by Kingsley, Hopeland<\/span><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-background-wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grve-section grve-row-section grve-fullwidth-background grve-padding-top-1x grve-padding-bottom-1x grve-bg-none\"><div class=\"grve-container\"><div class=\"grve-row grve-bookmark grve-columns-gap-30\"><div class=\"grve-column wpb_column grve-column-1-3\" ><div class=\"grve-column-wrapper\" ><div class=\"grve-element grve-text\">\r\n\t\t\t<p>The day I came to the streets<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>I was having some four friends<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>The first day I came to the streets<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I was with my mother before I came to the street<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>And the day I decided to go to the street<br \/>\nOne of my friends told me<br \/>\nWe should go swim at a worker at our village<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>My friend told me<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>She have some place<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>I would enjoy<\/p>\n<p>I was not happy with my mother<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>My mother and father was 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