Former WIFB middleweight champion and Kenya’s boxing legend Conjestina Achieng has been readmitted to a mental health care/rehabilitation center.
Achieng, 42, started battling mental problems in 2011 when she set all her boxing gear and memorabilia ablaze.
In 2012, she was admitted to Mathari Mental Hospital in Nairobi after the wife of Kenya’s former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Ida Odinga, intervened.
The assistance was also backed up by a KSh180,000 rent donation by comedian Daniel ‘Churchil’ Ndambuki.
In over a decade, Achieng, the fifth born in a family of 10, has been in and out of mental and rehabilitation facilities.
Recently, sports journalist Carol Radull exposed Achieng’s continuously worsening state prompting calls from Kenyans for assistance.
With Radull’s appeal, Achieng was admitted into a treatment centre on the August 13 for a three-month programme.
Due to the costly process, Radull has urged Achieng’s supporters, sports enthusiasts and other well-wishers to chip in for her medical fund.
Radull Monday acknowledged that the treatment is costly, hence the appeal for financial support.
Said Radull: “The treatment is expensive and we need your support to see her through this as we also try to fill the gaps that were causing her to relapse.”
Well-wishers are encouraged to channel their contributions via Mpesa Pay Bill number 5181441. The account number is 2030.
They can also visit tufund.org for more information.
Achieng became the first African woman to hold an international title when she beat Ugandan Fiona Tugume to lift the vacant WIBF middleweight gong on December 19, 2004 at the Nairobi’s Nyayo Gymnasium.
Achieng, aka the Hands of Stone, boasts of 17 wins, six loses and four draws out of her 27 professional fights.
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