Help John purchase a taxi to support his family

Hi my name is Adrian. I have known John Konah, a refuge from Liberia now residing in Ghana for many years. John's story has always touched me. While he awaited a new life in a refuge camp year-after-year, he was estranged from his children.

The wheel has turned for John and his family now, and he is trying his best to step up and be a provider to his children. John has shared with me his well-thought-out plan to become a tuk tuk driver, an industry that is experiencing major growth in his area. To do so he needs to raise US $3,500. I have felt John's pain over the years due to being agonisingly estranged from his children. I am overjoyed now that he is in a position to be the father and provider he can be, and I want to support him to achieve his goals.

Most importantly, John is extremely worried about his second daughter. Her mother's fiancée ran over her leg in 2016, and she didn't get proper medical attention since then, resulting in her leg getting infected and becoming painful. She needs better treatment and therapy, and John wants to ensure that with urgency. Another concern for her is that she's been running away from her mother for years and hanging out in the streets, which is dangerous for her as a young girl, and as a father, John is seeking to protect her well-being.

Please consider supporting John and his family.

From John:

I'm living in the situation, and I clearly understand. I have to rise above the odds stacked against me and make a difference. My children and I have been abandoned by UNHCR and the Ghana Refugee Board since 2012 due to the UNHCR's invoked cessation clause. Having lived in a refugee camp since June 2003,and having received refugee status in 2010 which was withdrawn in 2012 due to the cessation clause, I've not been able to get actual durable solution.

Officially, my children and I are considered illegal residents in the camp owing to a notice i received to vacate the camp by December 31,2015. The system here that is charged with the care ,welfare and protection of refugees is corrupt. There is no real passion in the majority of people working with refugees as I've noticed, most are simply working for paychecks. Refugees or people living in refugee like situations are pawns, and we are exploited due to our plight.

During the heat of the Covid pandemic, the UNHCR and Ghana Refugee Board distributed preventative materials to refugees in the camp, but I was denied even basic washing soap.

My greatest intention is to set myself up to be able to help others in similar situations here. Once I'm able to start thus tuk tuk taxi business, I'll have the financial liberty and flexibility to make positive changes in the lives of my family and other refugees. I'll also be able to transport some young refugee children to school a few miles away from the camp where they walk to and from daily.

Rest assured that I'll keep my word on this and I'll make a testimony.