Earlier this year, Lebanese endurance athlete Michael Haddad embarked on a series of ‘Walks for Life’ in North Africa and Norway to raise global visibility of the impacts of climate change on rural farmers in the region and beyond. Michael carried symbolic ‘packets of hope’ that contained climate-vulnerable but vital seeds of wheat, barley, lentil, chickpea, and forage crops (as well as a limited edition of a book he had personally collected from Pope Francis) to deposit safely into the Svalbard Vault.
On International Day of Disability, we talk to Michael about his life experiences and what his Walks for Life meant to him.