Ingunn Westerheim and Rebecca Tvedt Skarberg from Norway are the recipients of this year’s Black Pearl Volunteer Awards, an international award that recognizes their volunteer efforts for people with the rare condition osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). How it all started We do the interview on Zoom, since both ladies are at risk for Covid19. But what…
Who are you and what is your connection to OI? I am Julien Delaye, 26 years old, living in Belgium. Over the past seven years, I studied marketing, European Public Health, and more recently Public Policy and Administration, which took me to several places such as Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland and Ireland. A few months…
“I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are.” – John Denver. It took me a good while to find the perfect quote to start this editorial, because for some reason most quotes about youth I found were either bitter or condescending. Instead, I wanted to highlight…
