Popular singer, Joeboy has come out to say that not being able to pay his school fees as a child inspired him to open his own foundation as an adult. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, he owed school fees a lot when he was much younger, and getting used to the embarrassment as a little child became a very painful experience that he was ready to do something about once he made it big.
His words, “When I was younger, I used to owe school fees a lot and it used to get embarrassing. When I was in jss3 , the secretary that used to come names of those owing fees came and before she even began announcing, the whole class said my name ‘Akinfewa joseph’. It pained me!
It hurt me so much and I went back home and told my parents that I was never going back to that school again. I didn’t care, I pulled myself out that I wasn’t going anywhere.
That gave me the dream to do something, which was to help people who can’t afford to pay their school fees so I just opened a foundation; the young legend foundation. I opened it two months ago and we’ve been paying people’s school fees, so my inner child is very excited about that. It’s crazy what something like that can do to someone mentally. I mean it’s not the child’s fault that they can’t pay their fees right? But people made it seem like it was my fault and it was embarrassing and it paid me that time.”
WOW.
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