Visual storyteller

JOEL ‘KACHI BENSON

STILL STANDING

At age 6, Toyin Adesola was diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disorder in Nigeria, a country with the world’s highest number of Sickle Cell cases where many die young or live with stigma, disabilities, and joblessness. 

Life for Toyin became an unending cycle of hospital visits, surgeries, and blood transfusions including life-threatening complications. 

From fighting to go back to school, to finding faith, and becoming an advocate for other people living with SCD, Still Standing is the story of courage, faith, and the dogged determination of one woman to embrace life to the fullest.