Nigeria is a long way from University Heights, Ohio.
Which is why Felicia Ikpum hadn’t seen her son Mike Tersea for four years, ever since he’d left Nigeria on a basketball scholarship to John Carroll University.
But with his graduation from John Carroll looming, Tersea’s teachers and classmates thought his mother should be at the ceremony.
“We wanted to do something valuable for one of our classmates,” Joe Kyburz, the senior-class president, told the Baltimore Sun.
Knowing Ikpum couldn’t afford the plane ticket or hotel, the school raised $1,763 to bring her over.
Nigeria can be a dangerous place.
Yet, Felicia traveled 12 hours through terrorist-held territory to make the flight.
What was her reaction when she laid eyes on her son after four years?
“I screamed, I shouted!”
Be kind! We’re in short supply!
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