Kebba Secka, popularly known as Kebbis, traveled to Italy by boat when he was seventeen years old. On December 13, 2018, he passed away at the age of twenty-three from the injuries he sustained in a car accident. As he had stated when he received his identity card from the Municipality of Vittoria in the Ragusa region, his organs were donated.

The young man, who was a player for the Vittoria football team, passed away in the Cannizzaro hospital in Catania one week after suffering severe injuries on December 6. Now Kebbis was in Pozzallo. His final home, the village of Chiaramonte Gulfi in the Ragusa region, honors his magnanimity.

Kebbis worked to support his mother, his seventeen-year-old sister Famous, and his younger siblings back home. In a video conference with a physician from the team who removed the organs, the mother recounts the story.

Two patients in Turin received liver and pancreas transplants; a young man from Palermo received a heart transplant; and the corneas were given to the Mestre Eye Bank organization.

Lessandro Brullo, who co-founded a circular economy project with Kebbis to provide the Gambian community with work, recalls that organ donation was his specific choice, which he had discussed with his coworkers.

Kebiss, a cultural mediator, lived in Chiaramonte Gulfi, and the community will continue to assist the young man’s family. A collection has begun on social media to allow the remains to be returned to Gambia; 5,500 euros are required.