March 24, 2016.
If next summer you see a young man, disabled, at a tourist spot, transported on a man’s back, you will know his first name: it is Kevan.
Kevan is nailed to his wheelchair
Kevan suffers from a rare, degenerative disease. This means that his condition will inexorably worsen over time. Already, he has not walked for several years, condemned to move in a wheelchair, electric, which limits his movements.
Exceptional luck, Kevan managed to make friends, great friends, dedicated. It was his friends who had this crazy idea of taking Kevan to travel, despite his handicap, and of taking him to Europe this summer.
Transported on the back of a man
However, to travel with a wheelchair is to forbid oneself a lot of things. Also, to make Kevan a biped like the others, his friends decided to … lend him their legs. Concretely, they designed a special backpack, in which Kevan sits, and which therefore allows it to be carried on a man’s back. Kevan is neither very tall nor very heavy, because of his illness …
To finance this travel project, his friends therefore launched a fundraising campaign on http://wecarrykevan.com. They hope to raise 30,000 €, in order to be able to travel with him this summer in Ireland, the United Kingdom and France. A fine example of solidarity …
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