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DINUBA, Calif. (KSEE) – A brace of champion friends from Dinuba High School are taking calamity and turning it into a ngo to assistance others.
"My member did marque a choice, and helium couldn’t instrumentality that back,” said Kylie Lopez, a pupil astatine Dinuba High School.
At conscionable 11 years old, Kylie had to turn up fast.
“The consequences were permanent,” Kylie said.
Four years ago, her older member died from an accidental Fentanyl overdose. The grief from that calamity took clasp of her family, but adjacent to Kylie’s broadside was her champion person since simple school, Sanjog Pannu.
"Seeing my champion person persevere done grief has been specified a motivating experience, adjacent for me. And each time I consciousness similar we person a intent due to the fact that we person each different for this project," Sanjog said.
Kylie and Sanjog are successful the Medical Academy programme astatine Dinuba High School. Working together, they person turned their symptom into intent with a task called “One Pill Will Kill.”
"We’re really having an interaction and making a question successful their heart. That’s wherefore we’re doing this successful the archetypal place," Sanjog said.
The run includes speaking engagements, assemblage outreach, and Narcan training. The pair’s passionateness and dedication has inspired teachers and students alike.
“I was conscionable impressed that they said, we're going to bash this and we're going to marque a difference,” said Tayna Pennybaker, a teacher astatine Dinuba High School.
Their enactment is leaving a lasting legacy. Recently, the students received a assistance to crook their run into a nonprofit.
"It's coming afloat circle, similar they're being recognized for these, these efforts that they've enactment forth. But I cognize this is going to proceed good past precocious school,” said TJ Celaya, a teacher astatine Dinuba High School.
For Kylie and Sanjog, the connection is clear: 1 pill tin kill. The program of enactment is simple: crook symptom into passion.
"It's been hard and it gets harder each day. But we started this run to combat against the grief and to combat against the ongoing Fentanyl epidemic that is going connected and that is affecting families too," Kylie said.
To travel their run and larn much astir “One Pill Will Kill” find them connected Instagram and Facebook and online here.
