{"id":3788,"date":"2024-11-21T05:40:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T02:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/?p=3788"},"modified":"2024-11-21T05:40:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T02:40:35","slug":"sam-jethwa-was-involved-in-a-car-accident-that-paralyzed-him-from-the-waist-down-is-now-a-rally-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/sam-jethwa-was-involved-in-a-car-accident-that-paralyzed-him-from-the-waist-down-is-now-a-rally-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Jethwa was involved in a car accident that paralyzed him from the waist down is now a rally driver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twenty Five years ago, everything changed for Sam Jethwa after he was involved in a car accident where he sustained severe spinal cord injury at the T10 level leaving him paralysed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair.<\/span><\/p>\n

s we caught up with Jethwa at CrossFit Kwetu, his vibrant personality, positive attitude and inspiring story left us all in dismay as he shared his tough journey to recovery and how he learnt to live and adjust to his new life after the accident.<\/span><\/p>\n

A broken back doesn\u2019t exactly inspire anyone to get up and be more active but for Jethwa, this is not case.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe gym is the one place where I don\u2019t have to think about anything, I\u2019m able to decompress, clear my mind and feel better.<\/span><\/p>\n

I want people to feel that if I can do it both physically and mentally, then they can do it too. If I can inspire and push someone to go out there and try something different that will be very rewarding for me because you only know what you can do when you try,\u201d Said Sam Jethwa.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2003, Jethwa raced in the East Africa Classic Safari to raise funds for the rehabilitation of the National Spinal Injury Hospital in Nairobi raising US $14,000 in cash and kind. His life long dream is to do the Dakar rally one day and in so doing, be the first Kenyan and first person with disability from East Africa to do the Dakar Rally.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This article first appeared on Capital Lifestyle<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twenty Five years ago, everything changed for Sam Jethwa after he was involved in a car accident where he sustained severe spinal cord injury at the T10 level leaving him paralysed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair. s we caught up with Jethwa at CrossFit Kwetu, his vibrant personality, positive attitude and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pej6K6-Z6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sam-Jethwa-magaripoa.jpg?fit=1280%2C782&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}