 It is the touch land here on Y254 and now we shift gears considering that we are used here in the country and one of the biggest menaces that we have it is the drug problem here in Kenya. Most of the counties have a lot of a drug problem from the interior to the city but we've got young boys here in studio with us today who are using football to change that narrative. They come from deaf group of companies they have a football team that they own and what they use with this football team is all about trying to get the youth off drugs so that they can get into the world of using their talent and know that with talent you can make it in this life. How about that let's talk to them and hear what their story is and how they are using football for changing the narrative on drugs to talent and how you can help yourself. Joining me here in studio they are the four gentlemen from deaf football team of course Solomon Agano Solomon how are you? Karibu Sanwa Y254 na skiajaban. First is to thank God at least we have got a chance to come to these studios at the time we were starting we never knew we can be so far at this time and our aspirations in future maybe we can go up to this when you're saying at least make the life of these young boys just happy to be for them to be happy again and to start their houses do something and it will be good if we support each other as a Kenyan support young boys and live and live about drugs yeah and then we've got Calvin Lomedi Calvin welcome to Y254 are you doing today? I'm good thank you I feel home I feel honored we are thankful that we are here today at least to to air our agendas towards the youth because God gave us life and gave us talent so we have to use our talents in the right ways and one of them is to naja others to uplift others because leading is not a mass you be in front you can give others to lead where you're watching them you oversee them so we we all play in competitive leagues we have we we are in different teams so we came together to form one team with one goal to naja other talents when we spot a talent we take them we take them to our respective teams yeah back home yeah all right good one for then we have got Onesmas Angora Onesmas welcome to Y254 how you doing today I'm doing okay thank you very much for this opportunity it's so great to be able to share our story with the Y254 we are very great fans of you and our main purpose here is we want to tell the world Kenya at large that we have young talents down there that are dying and we want to bring on board that we are moving around this country so that we can be able to look at those young talents that are rotting down there and bring them on board so that we can be able to share them to the world thank you yeah so Solomon if you can just tell us how did this all began okay me and my management we just sat down because we are from the different clubs but in the same place we are we are living here yes so we played this guy in one team yeah to county level provincial yeah then we went like that the sponsor was not available so we sat with this guy down we asked how can we help the others because when we visited the rural places we found young boys they are playing ball football then you can find them maybe they have their problems yeah but when we we just discussed with him we proved that the players who were within to come join us at least you can get to the rural places we play with them if we have a ball maybe because you know the urban football with the rural football is just two different things you find in the urban we have at least adequate things that maybe we have something balls bonds but in the rural they lack everything yeah they have one ball for training the same same ball is playing games so we find so difficult to them so we have to visit the places as we went to kapsabit to embu so when we reach there we play a game we just nature the mentality you know some of us some players just need a mental yeah you just nature the mentality so we talk to them others change others maybe they tell us their problems maybe he started doing this when he was young so we have to improve him at least so alban alban the thing will be how do you change it so what are some of the success stories that we can get from your football team on my side and as a team for one let me on a personal basis and the reason why I called Solomon we have Calvo and our manager here it is because after sitting down with Solomon we decided they are young boys there maybe they have not got any chance to get in the playing academies this academies for football but they have the talent so how do how do we help these young boys it is by forming a team we called it ember so that we we will cover the country and maybe support the talent help the boys in our place there at rear room we have some other boys who are in the in the drug areas and at a point as a parent I think around different ways yeah after discussing with Solomon to the owner there are some young boys um so how do you help this boy to form a team to get a spot then you help him on my side that I can pitch up I have a boy kwao kwa Uawesi, Ngawezi wakamu, kenya uawesi kiniya kitu yattu Kijana nami pataknu Aga Nga mluizaya kijana wati, kwa strong kwa mbiliya Sambi, kwa problem here, na home Kwa umu本jani tumvesu, napi pira, no umu bia basi Wachani kutabu kuni nilii jezi Naminii na kia uaweti ikuwa full Nkwa 1 nani 2 niyadi Ndans tuqutabu, youa mzudi Umefanya mzudi Kwa kwa koi ona niya hata bingu Nui mefanya kitu yaa muhimo Ya, before I died, it was for our team we needed 18 people, for those 18 people, at least everyone to change a life of two people. That's our aspiration. If you change a life of two people, another group forms, another place, you change another life of two people. 2050, no 2030, we will have changed 15% of the Kenyan economy. Wow, that's a serious statement that you have made there. Kalwin, when you have been successful story, how do you feel about it? We have two boys working in Devki now. Devki is our primary sponsor because we cannot employ them. We are not yet stable. So, when we support them, we bring them Devki as a team, at the county level. So, we take them there, we talk to their management, we say, here we have a talent. The only thing we can do, it's an opportunity, we can sustain, we can change a ball and we can do other things because we also talk to players. We see this life after football. So, we also talk about that amongst ourselves and other players. You invest in anything, between education, business, eventually you retire. You see, sports pays, but lack of financial literacy makes sportsmen poor. It will be very sad, me seeing Solomon, when he retires from active football, he is begging. He had an opportunity to work, to play because we play football to make peace and happiness. I just feel happy when we went to Emboa and the stadium was full. People were happy. Even drunkards were very happy watching football and I thought that's a golden opportunity because where would these guys be if not watching football? Definitely they would be drinking. So, when we tell them, don't drink, we give them an alternative. You can play, you can work, you can go to school. It's not all about football. Football is a uniting factor amongst many other factors. So, we have so many successful stories. We are not yet there. We just began and with proper planning and we don't want to be overambitious, I know we will reach there. Let's talk about inspiration stories that you never get a chance to help, but this time you have a chance. Young boys who are taking a chance on other young people to try and change that narrative. It is the touch right here on Y254 and Ropa Rosoro. We are still hanging out with these four gentlemen here and let's talk to the manager Onesmas Anguronesmas. Tell us something that we've done. What inspired you guys to take on this journey? Thank you very much. What did inspire me and my fellow colleagues here to be able to come and join up, make a team was that we realized that this country has talent. And when you watch the football of Kenya, especially this year's African Cup of Nations, we had a challenge that is we didn't perform well. But when I came to realize it's because we didn't go down to the roots to be able to select the best out of this country to go and compete around, that is in Africa. If we will be having that support to the football, that is the Kenya Football Federation to go down the grass roots and be able to select the best talents who will have been able to perform better on the African Cup of Nations. But because we have not strategized well as a country, that is why we didn't perform well. Yes, we did better because it was the first time after Y254. And we came up with that idea that we should run, that is go down to the grass roots, check on the better talent that we have down there who are faking the talent going back to drug addiction so that we can be able to hook them out of the drug addiction, drug abuse system to football system. And as a result so far we have done better, we went to Embu recently that is on 21st last month and then we spotted still two talents who are on this 26th of this month they are going to cojoin Maisha Mabati football club that is a team under Devki management. And then we went still to Kapsabet, we realized two good talents who are right now working in the company, we want to go all around the whole country and look for those better good talents who are rotting down there, give them a job opportunity where they can be able to gain their livelihood and then after that we tell them to also impact on football and forget the drug addiction system. Let me ask a question here Solomon, away from football, drugs, drug addiction, you guys are trying to get people off drugs so that they can try a chance in football. You as young people and the way you have traveled in this country, you think we will curb that manence? Ya, we curb. How can we do it? Most of the people who are on this trend are easy children's homes sometimes. See talent is out there. We know that there are children's homes that are not so easy. So this is the time to come up early to try and get to behavior. We know that if we have a child we will be able to give it a go. If we have a child we will be able to give it a go. We will be able to give it a go. If we have a child we will be able to give it a go. We know that when we give it a go. We have been sedated in Kimawazismu that we have a child. At least we can give it a go and ask it for a while to introduce. We will be able to do a men's home and get everything we need. We will be able to cover things up for those who are on the top, people to go through spades and couples Georgia to take care of them in theOkinawa area. What's next for Devki? On our side and to the management, we don't all work in Devki. He works at Devki. He works at Devki. He works at... Me, I work at Nairopi Tiki Niko. Nairopi Tiki Niko here. So we just calmed up at one point, we came with one thing that is football, that is what is joining us. So at this point when we came to Fikama, it was like we were going to play in that team. So after you go to the team, you come later, you come later, and you get a chance to play in Kambuni, and they are able to come to Nairopi to give you a new move. Nairopi Tiki Niko here is a talented player, but we all only inspire them to give us a chance to play in 4 teams. kwenya wadikuwa, wadikuwa ngurupe yake. If they come together and that goal is on drugs, then we support them. On our side, we need to mention about education pay apart from football. Ui uki jana, right now we have two boys when ya tuna nasubesha. Mou jana nasubesha ui kwa yambu. Ki jana mdogo. Anna familiar. Ui wana suma. Na jwa ma sumo saini na isi. Atu pati ma pato yaju, lakini tuna heza. If we get 10,000, then 1,000 atu tris. Heo fungu lakumi piya. Fungu lakumi piya wana heza. Perika umtoto shule. Asomia atu tris na hea nji sa indie. So that's what we are doing and that's on our 18 man team. Fudi ya gana. Mou jaki shikam moujia. Mou jaki shikam moujia. Mou jaki shikam moujina. Mou jaki shikam moujina. Kama ni education ui ki jana anata kusoma. Ui wote sii wote wana cheza. Kama ni kusoma anata kusoma. Ui ki jana wacha tuna support. Bakama alitom. We are not just a college sa we know THE V eu renda car. It is very fare upusoma. Kiku jatuna hinadi kurengi e ng lisi. Они rikari naDP ya watu. We just got clear waterC on how we do atu tris. wana never covered our con cầnai. Kannada? We don't know. Nambia TM. Okay. So if you are on Facebook, you can get them at Team Tambia. Sendo, kalafu. Finally, the manager Onesmas, we send you to Nambia the final word. We will inspire you to work with us if you want to work with us when you want to work with the team in our site TM to moja work with us. Thank you very much. We as Team Tambia or Tambia FC, we will wish to invite each and every person who wishes to cojoin us and be able to support these young talents in Kenya who need our help as much as footable and livelihood is concerned. When you are out there, we are located in Ruiru, that is Kiambu County, and we look forward to hearing from you in case you wish to get us on a phone call and you have a talent or you have a team that you want to play against us so that you can be able to come and inspire those boys and girls around there who are alcoholic or abusing drugs or those people who don't have, that is, they don't have parents. We wish to invite you to come or talk to us through the number 07-03-803-846 so that we can be able to share with you our success story and be able to help you and naja the talent and the society. Thank you very much. Just repeat the number once more. The number is 07-03-803-846. Thank you very much gentlemen. It has been our boys here. It's an inspiration story on what you can do. Me personally they have touched me because as a practice in Catholic I don't pay my sadaka every day. That's all I can tell you for free. But these boys here have inspired me on what I can do with my 10% of my salary. Thanks a lot Solomon Agano. I've been in Ruiru. We've got Calvin Lumidia and Ernest Mosangura for coming to Y254 here to talk to us about your journey and what you are doing to help other boys out there to get out of the drug menace and come into the world of using your talent. It is Y254. It is the touchline here on Y254 for now it is all about Safarali. We have got the chance to host the next edition of the Safarali camp 2020. The WRC camp 2020. But it is a big question when people ask how can I get to Safarali when I do not have money. Can it be done? Here is the story of Azar Anwar one of the legendary drivers when it comes to the Safarali here in Kenya on how they are trying to train people to use their no more low budget cars and how they can get to Safarali.