Eunice shares her memories of Africa to support national campaign

Jul 28 2010 by Diane Parkes, Birmingham Mail

EUNICE Obeng-Oppeng has seen children as young as five so desperately hungry that they leave their homes in the countryside to beg on city streets in her home country of Ghana.

The 26-year-old now lives in Harborne but she says she will never forget the haunting images of children scavenging for food in the city of Kumasi.

Eunice left Ghana last year after she married Raymond Oppeng, a 30-year-old researcher at the University of Birmingham who had been working as a health economist in the African nation.

She now works at the Selly Oak-based African Community Council for Refugees to support her homeland and those who have left it.

And she wants to help others understand the problems the people of Ghana face.

“The problem is the lack of infrastructure,” she says. “People in the cities in Ghana live relatively well, but out in the rural areas, life is very hard.