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OLE KASSOW
Meeting Pain with Strength
Ole helped keep his wheelchair-bound father’s love for cycling alive by taking him on rides around the city until the day he passed. Seeing how it had the ability to lift his dad’s spirit, and provide respite from an otherwise lonely, immobile existence inspired Ole to continue riding for lonely seniors in retirement homes.
It all began with a story about a boy and his dad. For the Danish, learning to ride a bike is akin to learning to walk. And like most children there, Ole learnt to ride under the watchful eye of his father. Kassow Senior’s love for cycling was matched only by his love for giving, making his rounds around the city and helping who he could, however he could. And these loves were passed down to his son Ole.
Unfortunately, Kassow Senior contracted Multiple Sclerosis at an early age, trading his bicycle for a wheelchair. This is when Ole’s ride began. Towing his dad’s wheelchair with his bike, Ole took him away from the lonely view of his window, bringing him back into the world outside it one trip at a time. Their adventures around Copenhagen continued this way, but it too, was unfortunately short-lived.
“It was painful to see him becoming more and more weakened. Finally, he could not even go. He just sat at the window and watched the world pass by.” Then I said: "That's okay Dad. I'll be your legs, then."
This experience opened Ole’s eyes to the plight of the elderly and immobile. After his dad passed on, Ole decided to meet his pain with strength, and continue riding in his honour. He began by taking one lonely senior for a ride. Spending a day with the senior, Ole saw the same joy and release from loneliness he had seen in his own father years earlier, and Cycling Without Age was born.
Cycling Without Age uses a trishaw, a motorized hybrid between a tricycle and a rickshaw, to give rides to people with limited mobility. The trishaw can carry two adults in the front and is driven by a "pilot" who pedals in the back. The program began in Denmark in 2012 as a way of helping seniors in nursing homes get out into their communities.
“I saw how bike rides were able to relieve loneliness, and that’s the reason I started Cycling Without Age.”
In the time that’s passed, Ole’s organisation has lifted hundreds of thousands of seniors out of loneliness, helping them participate in life again, and sharing the joy of cycling with the entire world. And while loneliness is still a pressing issue in Denmark, the lonely now have company.
WATCH OLE'S STORY
Ole started with just his legs and one bike. Today, Cycling Without Age has over 10,000 volunteers in 40 countries. Panodil Extra helps Ole make sure that his pains don’t stand in the way of his mission: lifting seniors from loneliness.