Meet our community members - Comfort

Everyone who has volunteered for GHEI in the past or has visited Humjibre knows Madam Comfort. In her drinking spot “Lovers' Inn”, located directly on the main street, everyone is welcome for a beer or a shot.

But Comfort is not just a great hostess, she is also an experienced primary school teacher.

Meet Comfort

Madam Comfort

Senior high school & first job

Born in Bekwai, a town with about 15,000 inhabitants that is a twenty-minute drive from Humjibre, Comfort got her name after her mother had trouble having children and her birth was a true ‘comfort’.

She grew up with two younger brothers. Both of them are still living in Bekwai. One works as a driver and the other farms cocoa.

After Comfort finished junior high school, she continued with senior high school. She was the only one amongst her siblings to do so. It is not mandatory to attend senior high school and fees to attend were not abolished until 2017.

Comfort went to senior high school in Wiaswo, where she stayed in the dorms, half an hour away from her family. In turn for doing chores and helping in the household, Comfort got financial support from a family that aided her all throughout senior high school. And as she was an excellent student, the school itself waived almost a third of the fees.

After finishing senior high school, Comfort applied for a job with the government. She got offered a job as a teacher at one of the government schools in Humjibre.

“I had so many friends who were sitting at home, so I was very happy that I got a job”, says Comfort.

The year was 1984 and Comfort moved to Humjibre to teach at the Anglican School. After teaching there and at the Roman Catholic school in Bekwai, which she had attended herself as a child, she got her current posting as a teacher at the District Assembly School in Humjibre.

Comfort in front of the DA school where she teaches