Michaela "Chaeli" Mycroft (born 30 August 1994) is a South African ability activist with cerebral palsy who won the International Children's Peace Prize in 2011.
[4][failed verification][non-primary source needed] The organization now runs seven programs that impact the lives of more than 7,000 beneficiaries annually.
On 3 September 2015, at age 21, Mycroft became the first female quadriplegic to summit Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, the highest mountain in Africa.
[7][failed verification][8] Mycroft made history on 29 May 2016, along with Anita Engelbrecht, by being the first wheelchair athletes to complete the Comrades Marathon, an 89 kilometre ultramarathon run between Pietermaritzburg and Durban.
[9] This was the first time in the 95-year history of the event that a wheelchair athlete had successfully lobbied the organizers to have the rules changed.