Unlike many of his peers, the farthest 19-year-old Desmond Lam has travelled to is Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.
Mr Lam has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a rare muscular disorder which causes his muscles to progressively degenerate and weaken. He was diagnosed when he was three.
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