I have had a disability for the last 20 years. In 1993, when I was studying Philosophy and History in the University of Nairobi, I had an accident playing rugby and I damaged my spinal cord. Now I can hardly move. From then on, for half of my life, I have lived in a wheel chair and with somebody who is with me the whole day. My family also helps me a lot.

I am a Co-operator of Opus Dei and prayer has been a great source of strength to cope with my disability and in the moments of discouragement. I will attend the beatification of Don Alvaro as part of a community of Catholics who have come together to honour a great priest. It will be my fist time to go to a beatification. I hope that the ceremony will be a celebration of the life and work of Don Alvaro: a day full of joy and prayer.

The trip will be an opportunity to know the great city of Madrid and to visit the Bernabeu, the stadium of a great club. After that we will visit Lourdes and Rome. I am looking forward to that as well, especially to seeing the Pope.

I am a Co-operator of Opus Dei and prayer has been a great source of strength to cope with my disability and in the moments of discouragement.