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Mombasa's recovering drug addicts speak

Recovering drug addict Neema Saidi

These men and women have taken bold steps to fight their addictions and today they are budding advocates for a drugs-free society.

They speak with sadness about the jobs they lost and the relatives who ran away from them when they got addicted to drugs. But now they are all hopeful of regaining their free thanks to a State-sponsored rehabilitation programme.

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