THE cause was always going to be bigger than the crusader, and so it is with Cad’s Cause.
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Cad’s Cause honours Andrew Cadigan, an “ordinary” young Australian who provided this country with an extraordinary story of mateship – in that quintessential Australian way — before his tragic death following a horrific motorcycle crash while holidaying in Thailand in 2012.
Cad didn’t start out to be a hero when he embarked on his awe-inspiring walk to raise money in the fight against cancer after his mate Chris ‘Simmo’ Simpson succumbed to a rare blood disorder called myelodysplasia, a pre-leukaemia condition, in 2010.
But Cad came to represent courage and hope on his 15,000 kilometre walk across Australia raising $60,000.
His diaries from that epic effort have been put in a book by his father and renowned author Neil Cadigan as a promise to his dying son.
Half of any profits made from the sale of the book, A Man and A Pram, go to the charity founded in Andrew’s name, Cad’s Cause, and particularly a PHD scholarship set up by the Leukaemia Foundation to study myelodysplasia, named in honour of Cad and Simmo.
The book, self-published by the author, is available only as a paperback through www.ozonfoot.com.au and as an e-book through www.kobobooks.com or on Kindle (www.amazon.com/dp/B00L6KXA7I)
