Respect. An 18-Month Journey.

                            

                           Zack Kimotho, who is a Kenyan, is traveling 4,000 kilometers from Nairobi to the nearest Spinal rehabilitation center, which is in South Africa, by wheelchair. He is wheeling himself halfway across Africa and is trying to raise 2.9 million dollars to build a rehabilitation center in Kenya. He said that the longest journey in his life, however, was the ride from the roadside where he had been shot during an attempted carjacking to a hospital in Nairobi. He wants to help people who are in a similar condition as he is and he believes that a rehabilitation center would help both the injured and their families cope with the special needs of a paraplegic’s lifestyle. According to the Kenyan government, there are more than 15,000 people who suffer spinal-cord injuries from accidents on the road annually. So far, he has raised 500,000 dollars and continues his 18-month journey to South Africa. 

 My View: 

       What this guy is doing is incredible. It is truly amazing and inspiring. Traveling, BY WHEELCHAIR, from Kenya to South Africa is just unbelievable. And the fact that he is traveling all this way just to go to a spinal cord rehabilitation center is crazy. Kenya does not have one, let alone most countries in Africa, and he needs to travel all this way just for help. I really do pray that he raises the 2.9 million dollars that he needs. I hope that one day he builds a rehabilitation center that helps thousands of people throughout Africa. I will definitely donate and I hope you do too, for this is just too incredible for words!