"I FIND it hard to explain where my story starts," Jean-Paul begins.

"But what I do know and will stay with me forever is the struggle that it has been to get where I am today."

Like all life-changing stories there is a start and for Jean-Paul that was in Burundi in 1993, when a civil war broke out between Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups.

That civil war led to thousands of people losing their live...