Help Kingsley Recover

This is Kingsley. He’s my cousin, and one of the kindest people I know. He’s always thinking of others before himself, the kind of person who notices when someone’s having a hard day and shows up for them without ever being asked. Everyone who knows him says the same thing: his kindness is hard to forget.

This past year hasn’t been easy for him. Moving to online school meant losing a lot of the everyday connection he was used to, and at times it left him feeling really isolated. Climbing became something different for him during that period. It wasn’t just a sport, it was where he found his confidence again, where he felt strong and capable, and where he found a sense of identity that the loneliness of the past year had chipped away at. On the wall, Kingsley was completely himself.

That’s part of why this accident has hit so hard. Kingsley was in a freak climbing accident that has left him with two badly broken arms, a cracked sternum, and a damaged spleen. It’s a brutal list of injuries to face at any age, and it’s taken away, for now, the very thing that had been hel...