19 year old Tikiko Tavualevu who is a peer mentor in the Tagane Mai Program coordinated by Inspire Pacific has shared his journey right from his childhood when he took up drugs from an early age and refused to attend school.
As he shared this on fijivillage Straight Talk With Vijay Narayan, Tikiko who is from Ra says he just wanted to take drugs and did not want to go to school, and was eventually involved in a robbery when he was about 16 years old.
He was then placed in the Juvenile Centre where he kept thinking on why he did not listen to his mother and father.
Tikiko shares that he was determined to change for the better and that is when he came across Pastor Ben Morrison who is the founder and Chair of Inspire Pacific that runs the Tagane Mai Program.
He says for the first time ever, he shared his story with Morrison and then entered the 14 weeks Tagane Mai Program.
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