The family travels to several countries to expand the search for visual memories (Picture: Reproduction)
A Canadian couple have decided to travel around the world with their four children, after three of them were diagnosed with a genetic disease, retinitis pigmentosa, which will leave them blind.
The saga began in March this year and will last for a year. The family’s first destination was Namibia, Africa.
They have already visited Zambia, Tanzania, Turkey and Mongolia, where they stayed for over 30 days. Now the family is moving to Indonesia.
On Instagram, they revealed that the trip was supposed to start in 2020, but the pandemic made him change all plans. During this time they hiked and toured across Canada.
According to information from the CTV News television channel, Edith Lemay and Sébastien Pelletier have revealed that their eldest daughter, Mia, started having vision problems at the age of 3.
“There’s nothing you can really do. We don’t know how quickly this will happen, but we expect them to go completely blind in middle age,” Edith said.
Colin and Laurent, the couple’s other two children, also had similar symptoms. The problem was discovered in 2019.
The couple also informed that the idea for the trip came after a specialist guided the expansion by researching “visual memories” in children.
“I thought to myself, ‘I’m not going to show him an elephant in a book, I’m going to take him to see a real elephant and I’m going to fill his visual memory with the best and most beautiful images that I can.’” , said the mother.
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