Episode 3: Access to the World: We Carry Kevan
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
For individuals with NMD, or any disability, travel is complicated by all kinds of logistical issues and accessibility barriers. There are places and experiences that are “off-limits” to individuals who use wheelchairs because certain destinations just aren’t accessible, or accessible enough. Kevan and friends have broken through those barriers by creating a nonprofit organization that developed a special “adult-size” backpack so that Kevan and his friends could go explore Europe and China, without being tethered to a wheelchair. The backpack allowed his friends to carry him, accessing the parts of these countries he would not have been able to experience from his wheelchair. They have created two documentaries from footage shot from these trips, largely because…”they wanted the proof because no one would have believed it.”
Your Guests
Kevan Chandler
![Kevan-Chandler](https://mdaquest.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Kevan-Chandler.jpg)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wecarrykevan
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wecarrykevan
Website: https://www.wecarrykevan.com/
Luke Thompson
![Kevan-Chandler](https://mdaquest.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Kevan-Chandler.jpg)
Luke Thompson is a friend, travel companion and partner in “We Carry Kevan”
Mindy Henderson
![Mindy-Henderson](https://mdaquest.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Mindy-Henderson.png)
Mindy Henderson is your host, and happens to have been diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, type 2 when she was 15 months old. Today, Mindy is the host of this podcast, and is also a motivational speaker and a writer, with her first book set to hit book stores in Fall of 2022.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hendersonmindy
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindyhendersonspeaks
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