Albert Casals

Albert Casals Serradó was born in Barcelona in 1990. At the age of five, he suffered mononucleosis which led to leucaemia and left him in a wheelchair. Since he was seven, he has lived in Esparreguera (Barcelona) with his parents and sister and completed his secondary education. He has been travelling on his own around the world since the age of fourteen. He is now eighteen and has decided to take a gap year before beginning university. During the last seven months, he has been travelling across America.
He was recently named ambassador for the Step by Step foundation (www.fundacionsbs.org), which aims to rehabilitate patients with bone marrow conditions.