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Family that lived in cemetery for 24yrs given decent home

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  • princewilly@ymail.com 9 years ago

    Two women go out one weekend without their husbands. As they came back,just before dawn, both of them drunk, they felt the urge to pee. They noticed that the only place to stop was a cemetery. Scared and drunk, they stopped a ...
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  • Fred 9 years ago

    They should help...

    Winkers! NDC USELESS GOVERNMENT IN AFRICA!

  • CORNEY 9 years ago

    Where in the world are you hiding,in a whole since you don't know that there is homeless people in almost every country in the world?

    Some of you have your mouths sealed so you talk from your ass.
    Ignorance is a chronic d ...
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  • IMA London 9 years ago

    What a world! I wish we can be as simple as this woman. God bless her.

  • Asempa 9 years ago

    This is incredible. A very touching. This is the kind of story we need hear more about.

  • Adurah Stephenson 9 years ago

    This happened to show that God is watching over everybody no matter whom you are, where you come from and so on and treats everyone equally and fairly.

  • Chief amankwa 9 years ago

    I am not shocked.
    Social services do not work effectively .
    U wonder why it will be war soon

  • Mano 9 years ago

    I don't see anything unique about this woman. Is anybody forcing her to live in Accra? She should go back to Bolgatanga where she came from if she cannot afford housing in Accra.

    To live in a cemetary for twenty four years ...
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  • Akos 9 years ago

    Is this story factual? How can this woman & her five children live inside a cemetery for this many years & no one ask them to move or give them assistance? isn't this illegal?

  • DABENDA 9 years ago

    THERE HAS BEEN A STORY ON CNN ABOUT A MAN WHO DUG A CAFE UNDER THE GABAGE OF NEW YORK AND LIVED THERE FOR TOURTEEN YEARS. HE SAID THINGS GOING ON IN THE WORLD ARE FILTHY TO HIM SO MUCH THAT HE DIDN'T WANT TO SEE ANY OF THEM. ...
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  • tina 9 years ago

    u are more than a fooool , stupid fat fool

  • tina 9 years ago

    u are more than a fooool , big fat fooool ,stupid u are

  • Nii Adjei 9 years ago

    they could have built the new house for her at bolgatanga.

  • ugly akufo addo 9 years ago

    akufo addo is now having haram money

  • Moira 9 years ago

    Shocking, this can only happen in hopeless Ghana. She's been lodging in a cemetery, which I'm assuming, it's either a State or private property and nobody seems to care that a family is living there? The kids are probably adu ...
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  • AB 9 years ago

    Know that even in United States there are homeless people living on the streets.

  • NANA BIO 9 years ago

    Why live in Accra?They can make it in Bolga..In some parts of the Philippines,people live in cemeteries .and the government dare not move them out

  • DUNAMIS 9 years ago

    SHAME ON YOU GHANAIANS! YOU CANNOT EVEN CARE FOR YOUR POOR, WHAT DO YOU DO WITH ALL THE OIL MONEY?

  • kokotakoooooo. 9 years ago

    Even Britain people sleep on street how much more Ghana. This one of the sad storys in Ghana. But is everywhere.

  • Peaches 9 years ago

    Yes, there are homeless everywhere but living in a cemetery with your children for 24yrs is unusual and mind boggling,

  • DUNAMIS 9 years ago

    NO!!!no one with CHILDREN will ever be homeless in UK or Europe, unless they wish. It past time Ghana did a lot more to protect children and the vulnerable

  • Silry 9 years ago

    DYNAMIS dont u have poor people in wherever u r coming from? Some of u talk as if u r coming from heaven. If u think Ghana's that bad, y dont u stay in ur country where everything's peffect?

  • Adu 9 years ago

    Did she build some kind of structure at the cemetery? I want to know.

  • DUNAMIS 9 years ago

    SLEPT IN AN EMPTY GRAVE...LOL

  • Nana Kwashi 9 years ago

    People like Mama Julie Sampana are the real people of Ghana who are not greedy. She is Salt of the Earth They make do with what they have with very little complaint and still share the little that they have with others. May ...
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  • alima 9 years ago

    may God richly bless u for helping this poor woman and her family....allahu akbar