By KAITLYN NAPLES STAFF WRITER Thomas Awiapo of Ghana, has traveled to 48 states in America and made a stop in Bristol last week to share is story of overcoming poverty and being an advocate for education. Last Friday, as part of their Lenten journey, St. Paul Catholic High School students and faculty listened to Awiapo’s story of how he was an orphan in poverty in a village in Africa, struggling to find water, food and anything else to help him survive. It wasn’t until Catholic Relief Service came into his village and built a school, where Awiapo’s life began to take a turn for the better. “Education is liberation,” Awiapo told the students, adding that he never liked going to school but went because he knew there would be a snack waiting for him when he arrived. “They tricked us with a snack so that we would come to school,” Awiapo said, adding he is doing the same in his country while he works as a Catholic Relief Services Global Solidarity Coordinator. Catholic Relief Services is the “official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States,” its website said and began in 1943 and has reached [...]
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