10th Edition
Wealth John
Social
Bravery
8 Years
Male
Nasarawa
8 YEAR OLD BOY SAVES GIRL FROM CHILD MARRIAGE
Wealth John is an 8 years old boy from Akwa Ibom State. He grew up in Abuja Nasarawa state and he’s a primary 4A student of United Nursery and Primary school Nyanya Gwanadara in Nasarawa State. Even though Wealth is but a child, he is wise enough to notice the rate at which child marriage and abuse has increased in his community and this made the young boy an advocate against injustice, social crimes and child marriage. According to Wealth, a young girl in his compound lost her parent at an early age and her aunties wanted to marry her off as they couldn’t take care of her. Wealth was moved with compassion for the young orphan and thus decided to help her. He therefore went to his mother and told her of the young girl’s plight amidst tears, persuading his mother to take her in and treat her like a daughter. Wealth’s mother was deeply moved by her son’s wisdom and compassion and so she accepted and brought the girl into their family. His mother has been responsible for the girl’s upkeep ever since and also by sending her to
school. The young girl now 13 years old and have been living with the family since 2013. She is currently in secondary school and hoping to become an Artist afterwards.
