Achilles International is a nonprofit that matches guides with disabled athletes. You can get paired just for race day. Becoming a guide is a bit like applying for college. Write an essay. Instead of test scores, you submit race results. Then, a few months beforehand, you may get matched. I was selected as one of several guides for Oidvin. We exchanged countless emails leading up to the race. The benefits of technology: Oidvin relies on an iPhone voice-recognition app for messaging. She was born in South Korea, and adopted by a family living by one of Norway’s picture-postcard fjords. Her family raised her to believe that she could do anything. She went to college, became a physical therapist, and now lives with her husband and two daughters near where she was raised. Read the full story: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/sports/new-york-city-marathon.html -- Avinash Shahi Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU
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