Nigerian musician Joseph Akinwale Akinfenwa-Donus popularly known as Joeboy shares a heartwarming tale of how his difficult upbringing inspired him to establish a foundation to support kids going through similar struggles.

The singer recently talked about how getting sent home from school for not paying fees motivated him to make a difference in an interview with Isi Ijewere on the "Backstage Banter with Isi show."

Joeboy described how he frequently struggled to pay his school fees during his junior secondary school years, which resulted in some awkward situations.

He recalled an instance in which his classmates teased him, anticipating that he would be sent home for failing to pay his fees.

According to him, he was deeply impacted by this encounter. He claimed that it motivated him to assist those who face similar challenges.

Joeboy said, “When I was younger, I used to owe school fees a lot and it used to get embarrassing. When I was in jss3 , the secretary that used to come names of those owing fees came and before she even began announcing, the whole class said my name ‘Akinfewa joseph’. It pained me!.

It hurt me so much and I went back home and told my parents that I was never going back to that school again. I didn’t care, I pulled myself out that I wasn’t going anywhere.

That gave me the dream to do something, which was to help people who can’t afford to pay their school fees so I just opened a foundation; the young legend foundation. I opened it two months ago and we’ve been paying people’s school fees, so my inner child is very excited about that. It’s crazy what something like that can do to someone mentally. I mean it’s not the child’s fau

lt that they can’t pay their fees right? But people made it seem like it was my fault and it was embarrassing and it paid me that time.”

Watch him speak in the video below

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