Every day, for the past three-and-a-half years, Mr David Ogot Snr has been akin to a mobile billboard by wearing a T-shirt with an anti-drug message. Mr Ogot, who battled with alcoholism for 27 years, started wearing T-shirts on October 1, 2003, as a one-month campaign to raise awareness about the Alcohol Month. It has since evolved into a daily campaign. Whereever he goes, Mr Ogot gets people to sign a form certifying that they have seen him wearing the T-shirt at a aprticualr time and place.

He had hoped to enter the Guinnnes Book of Records and thus get his 15 seconds of fame to preach about alcohol and its effects, but that was not to be.

He continues to create awareness by giving talks in schools, workshops and seminars. He has written prolifically and produced a television documentary, sharing his experience and helping the world to understand that alcoholism is a disease. Mr. ogot also helps run the Goinghomedotcom Trust, which supports receovering alcoholics.

"For it is only through our stories that the stigma will finally be overcome," Mr. ogot says on the trust's website, www.goinghomekenya.org

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