The harrowing story is told by CNN Travel this Monday.
A family from Montreal (Canada) decided to travel around the world to give their four children a unique experience.
Because three of them suffer from an illness without cure.
Mia (11 years old), Colin (7 years old) and Laurent (5 years old) may be very young, but they already know that they will lose their sight as the years go by.
Indeed, as their parents discovered, they have retinitis pigmentosa.
This disease causes progressive degeneration of light-sensitive cells in the retina.
No treatment currently exists, which seems to condemn children to gradually losing the use of their eyes, until they become completely blind around their 30s or 40s.
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Live the “most incredible experiences”
When they learned that three of their four children suffered from this incurable disease, their parents decided to act.
“I'm not going to show him an elephant in a book, I'm going to take him to see a real elephant, decreed the mother of the family.
And I will fill his visual memory with the best and most beautiful images that I can”.
So they gathered their savings, sold the father's business and set off to travel the world.
The Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine upset the plans somewhat, but the family was finally able to begin their journey in March 2022. Namibia, Zambia, Tanzania, Turkey, Mongolia, Indonesia… The two adults and their four children have already discovered many marvels during their traveling journey, which they share on social networks.
"There are beautiful places all over the world, so it doesn't matter where we go," says the mother.
We really try to show them things they wouldn't have seen at home and have the most incredible experiences”.
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