Seven-year-old plans 15km run to help his forever friend
Imagine running around the playground and climbing stairs every day with weights strapped to your ankles, or having your hands tied as you get up from your desk. That is what seven-year-old Dan Miceli Demajo experienced when he stepped into the shoes of his schoolmate Eric Silvio, to understand what it means to have a muscle degenerative disorder. Dan’s next step is to run 15km to raise funds to buy Eric an ultra-light, all-terrain powerchair that will allow his friend to “enjoy a world without boundaries”. Eric has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), a condition characterised by progres...