MANY MAGIC MOMENTS ON DS WORLD TOUR Earlier this year Edward Bradley, who lives in Spain, visited New Zealand as part of his D2020 World Project to connect with people with Down syndrome around the world and found we have more in common than we think.
Edward Bradley in Auckland
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Everything started with one crazy idea: going on a world tour meeting people with Down syndrome. One day I thought about my sister Victoria, who has Down syndrome, and she often asks me if I see people with Down syndrome when I travel. And somehow, I always do. So she is always surprised to hear that there are people like her living in many different countries and who speak many different languages. So I started creating the D2020 World Project in October 2019. It is a project meant to raise awareness on Down syndrome around the world allowing anyone to share their stories. I created an email, contacted foundations not really knowing if any of them would answer, I started organising flights, made a logo, and on the 9th of January 2020, I left from Madrid to go to my first destination: Turkey. In Istanbul, I met with the Down syndrome foundation and it was a magical moment. After the first meeting of the tour, we all went to have lunch together and Robert, a young man with Down syndrome, was the one who had to guide us to the mall.