“At that tender age [in primary school] I looked at members of my family and I realized that all of them were at a particular stage in life and no one was really advancing financially or educationally so I decided that I wanted to go in a different direction…,”
As a child, Wanda Fortune woke before the crack of dawn and got halfway prepared for school before marching out with her mother and siblings to sell newspapers at street corners and then scurrying off to school.
“At that time I went out every morning. During the week, we leave around 5 am and on Sundays around 3 am… and you would dress in everything for school, of course, except the uniform.