Luca Falcon, 35 years old from Verona, died in Angola. After losing his left leg with his wife, he collected discarded prostheses and donated them to adults and children living on the continent that he loved.
He was cheerful, courageous, enterprising, in love with motorbikes and Africa. And it is there, in Angola, that Luca Falcon from Verona died on Sunday 3 March, the day after his thirty-fifth birthday, in an accident with a truck. A cruel fate, because at the beginning of August 2016 Falcon risked dying in another accident in Verona with his motorbike. After two years of trying to recover his left leg, amputation was necessary. Having worn the prosthesis from that event, he had found the strength to be reborn, with a second life dedicated to giving an opportunity for a better life to those who had fallen victim to the same fate in countries that cannot guarantee healthcare like in the West.
from first incident to commitment
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Thus was born “Karma on The Road”, a non-profit association founded together with his wife Giulia Trabucco, engaged in the collection and donation of used or discarded prostheses, which were then reused to give a better quality of life to amputees in countries of the third world, in particular African children victims of wars. With his wife he had donated over 600 prostheses to a Ghanaian hospital.
the last trip
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In December he returned to Africa together with his wife with whom he often traveled on two wheels, then he returned to Italy, leaving behind his motorbike, a Honda Africa Twin, in view of his new trip in February, which he had described on social media. Having left Bologna on 4 February, he crossed Nigeria, Cameroon and the Republic of Congo towards Cape Town. “I will get to South Africa or die trying,” he had said; his wife Giulia, announcing her husband’s passing on the Karma on The Road Facebook page, reported this quote from Luca. The accident that cost Falcon his life is still unclear. The collision with a truck would have been fatal. The family members have contacted the Italian Embassy in Angola for the repatriation operations of the body. “The dynamics of the accident are not very clear. I don’t have the police report yet but it’s really irrelevant. They told me it was instantaneous. At least he passed away doing what he loved most in life: traveling on a motorbike” he said his wife Giulia.
the documentary film
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“I know that you loved him – wrote Giulia – and for this reason I swear that I will honor his memory. The docu-film will be released and will be testimony to his strength, his immense courage and how much he and I managed to do as alone in these years. No one will forget, I never will.”
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