The Ride for Ella

The World Health Organisation says that air pollution contributes to seven to eight million premature deaths a year, but only one person, Ella Kissi-Debrah, has ever had air pollution on their death certificate. She has it on her death certificate because of a long struggle led by her mother, Rosamund Kissi-Debrah, supported by doctors and lawyers. On Saturday 7 September, International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies and Clean Air, about 20 of us gathered in Mountsfield Park, London, a park that Ella loved and where she played, to Ride for Ella. Her mother saw us off and greeted us back.I’ve met Rosamund before, and like every campaigner for clean air, I knew about Ella having air pollution on her death certificate, but I must confess that I didn’t know the full story until I read it on the website of the Ella Roberta Foundation, a foundation founded by…
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