More than delighted to have won the first commonwealth efootball qualifiers in kenya and get the chance to represent Kenya in Birmingham.
Big thanks to all the sponsors and organisers for making it happen.
We bring it Home!!
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Left: heroin, fentanyl and cocaine addict, shooting every day, living on the streets.
Right: 769 days sober, learning to live a life I finally love.
My dad got me off the streets on July 21, 2024. I walked into detox at 49kg (108 lbs). Skin and bones, nothing else left. For more than half my life, I hated myself. I watched other people love being alive and couldnโt understand it. I was only ever surviving. Heroin and crack took everything, and I ended up on the streets as the exact person I swore Iโd never become. Then fentanyl arrived and dying became normal. Friends took their last breath right in front of me. I odโd more times than I can count, woke up to Narcan again and again, always asking the same question: why am I still here? I tried quitting so many times. Detox, rehab, repeat. I always went back, because real change terrified me more than dying did.
Until one day I called my dad, crying. He came. Detox, then 18 months of long-term treatment. New state, new life, every old tie cut. Zero. Today Iโm at peace. I love myself, the healthy way. I used to numb everything just to get through a day. Now I feel it all, the highs and the lows, and thatโs exactly where the growth is. Of course I still have dark days. But it gets better, and I learned to deal with them instead of running. In the past, the smallest craving or wave of depression sent me straight back to using. Today I sit with it. I let it pass through me. And every time it does, I come out stronger than ever.
To my doctor, my therapists, and my parents: I owe you everything.
If I came back from that place, so can you. Keep going. Thereโs light on the other side. We do recover.