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your mind. so all of the topics i'm much up to you from couple fixed a new culture and in 15 minutes, let's say parts of our community life on the server. research is now on the this is one of kenya's based kayak is in training. if i, if i leave that microsoft thing and to me pulling pics this slide on. so that's a big the bus will happening. championships held almost exclusively in europe for africans like sammy missouri. that can be an obstacle for us to go out and participate in any events within the fancy we have to get lots of nothing prints

submitting all those documents is not a 100 percent. like we are going to get to be this. so there is someone behind this somewhere will have to be side of chico and a few minutes and decide whether we are going to go out or not. the few natural landscapes are basis to use it for solemn kind of training. then central can use to gone over the god you sent me to recruit up just steps from its banks of days. region was chosen to host the african championships, will slalom kayaking in 2015. he began to see the what was his with fresh ice. i used to see him said somewhat to somebody taking the back home and i was young of

uh we have that obligation to ship everyone around. what do they quote? so these are big sports, this big suppose inspired sammy and he started to become a kayak pioneer and can you with minimal equipment? so guys, i'm ready for team today. so that's my helmets. my jacket in my face got my puddle, used to be a kind of final double blade on one blade. good. broken, that's a mobile uh stick. i decided to improvise profits around it and i use it for my training. so improvisation is key. somebody is preparing to take part in the conduce loan and world cup in spain and the bull championships in london, which double as the qualifies for the power. so lympics, he's keenly aware of the resource gap between the gear he has and what's available in europe. most of the other do you live in france and they have easy access on

kayaks and all they keep going for us to get maybe like a bottle of a kayak in the country. it will cost a lot like the k x we are using right now. the old old button. we just try to maintain them because we know it's hard to get any of the equipments down here. for the last few months, a few weeks we have been trading really hard. he's a tough as lead now. about the 1st steps on the what was the were not so easy. when i joined the club, this island club, i said i would, i had some friends who helped me for me. i do enjoy every minute. when i'm in there, what i'm doing. my main thing part is pretty big and winning though with these by a few other people and i just want to see the packing going and coming

a big boat in slowing them. kayaking involves completing a course of hunting gates and the fastest time possible. green gates are crossed while moving down stream. red gates must be crossed in an upstream direction, oscillates and europe often training in the office of disease without official with is and 5 o'clock gates. but here on this, the gone to semi and his friends make do with what they have in kenya, the as of, if you meant it for us stretches we have the most chatted us compared to other countries. this loan get uh so important. um that is uh you have to maneuver that on the uh, green falls uh reviews things and cable that we have like both types. so we painted them green and red just to identify the upstream on the dose. yes.

yeah. that's our own way on how to do a level for see if as this disposing and the equipment related obstacles when to now, the biggest tenants lies ahead for sammy guessing baez's in the capital 9 rugby we seem to have around like 1010 days before we fly out for our form of edition. uh for the couple of days we, we've not been saying uh we've been to night will be almost for like 3 or 4 days before going for 2 different offices. uh, looking for a visa and all that. but yesterday and today we had a chance to do a training. that's why, how this my, on my, on my face, i like what, uh and this is almost like going, but the stress of his visa sagas seem to be tons at home. piles of documents are still waiting to be submitted to the spanish and push embassies. a complicated

process. yeah, for us to go out and participate in any event. we developed country, we have to get lots of documents is uh like passports, because anyway they soon slater's our bank statements uh, the premium. okay. uh they quote statements on and all that stuff. i don't know why they do ask for all those documents in as an identity. you seem to have something to come back home for like you have a happy family. you have like the duties from home. you will not kind that i would we yeah. if you go out there, you're not like going and thing definitely in the let's it doesn't feel comfortable for you. yes. all those kind of questions and you're just going for support then turned back on. so if i don't get a chance the on the on these events,

and i'll have to wait for another like for 5, yes. say more and wait for like the nic calling because somebody has good reason to be consent off to being invited to a u. k. and them to qualify and 2015, he acquired his 1st post post at great personal expense. but the british visa was never issued and his documents languished on used for another half decade. it's a problem sized by many african athletes, even at the highest levels in 2022 visa, today's course canyon spencer funding. not on yana to be left behind, while his teammates travelled ahead to the world athletics championships in the united states. the o africa recruit holder had his visa, denial reversed at the last minute and ended his 20 hour plane journey to 3 hours before his $100.00 mesa race began. hardly ideal conditions for supposing superstar

office like been in these athlete or d, o 11 knew were even less fortunate despite being the only african to qualify for the contests hip test alone. she was never grown to the visa at all. even well, huge business travelers, face months, long backlogs, when applying for visas at western embassies where the interview process can be cruising and invasive. so actually it's like semi the recurring 2 hour bus johnny to nairobi means he's at a disadvantage. so for us to get visas, we have to stay out of the water and we have to go tonight will be done every day. slipping our sessions on training. somehow visit for cameras. i'm not allowed inside the embassies, so we catch up with sammy, for a tea break, as he prepares to drop off his final application for a visa to spain. yeah, it has been

a long day looking for visas. i have my documents here and the already they do and or the guy behind the desk with that he's going to approve all my documents. and i've done these before going into the m. s. the. and sometimes i didn't actually on the time, i didn't want these to get resist. so i don't know what i'm remaining with is just dropping these documents into the building over there. i'm hoping we'll get the visa the application is now out of sammy's hands, and he's able to focus on what he loves most, preparing for his upcoming contests and motivating a new generation of so gone and locals to take an interest in this for the, for the okay, you'll continue games meet when you go into those sweet about forward sweets and bucks weeks with them, but then you come back. all right,

let's see it now do it so no nice so uh ben's on he's one of the other thing we have. i don't think i know he was like the best junior uh uh for the last one. but he wasn't meant to come with us in spain, but he didn't have uh, fox sports. and i'm sure it was a hustle for visas. yeah, we have a big group. nobody on your from the same area. the all we seem to be locked out there. and i'm happy to be present them, you know, big events. and i also know the happy for me. um. yeah, i'm so tired, man said email i was training. it was to find the boat next month. what i'm doing next month. we have 2 competitions as a world cup in the world championships. emily,

i finally divide. i don't know if this training of those will be enough for us to go over there and compete with those guys this window homepage. now my demo with a boat, there's visa, stuff about the stuff. yeah. it's been hard is that we're not able to go to nairobi and come back, things like that. but anyway, let's try what we can we're gonna do. i'm just waiting to see if this visa hope can be go and tell you what's homeless. so it's almost time for lunch. why do we head up and drop something to eat? sure. the day of sammy's departure has finally arrived, and he's delighted by the news from the spanish embassy. today the day. i'm so excited. i'm heading to the airport. i already have this buddy's visa, so i'm going to put it in my country in spite. but unfortunately, i don't have the u. k visa, so i will have to send my passport, but hope to get a visa for you. k. it'd be something you're going to say, but that's hoping all,

everything will go to some awarded of you as i'm, you know, for the guns they, we, those, my bus boats on my bus. i would say that like back to kenya and kind of, i don't know where the, the goodness doesn't fit toner. sammy is you. k visa was ultimately granted. bob, his passport was mailed back late. he had to re book his flight and lost imposing days for preparation in london. sammy came in a task out of $105.00 and failed to qualify. but he tells us his dream of becoming the 1st pallet to be present can you at the olympics still lives on the . 2 the

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d. w. what secrets lie behind these discovered new adventures in 360 degrees. and explore fascinating, both heritage selling dw world heritage 360 now hello and welcome to another episode of the 7 to 7 percent. my name is edith kimani and this week we are in come from a town location in northwest and kenya on this week. so we're talking about what it means to be forced to leave your home and adapting to a life of not knowing if or when you ever go back. here's what you're prepared for you. we meet refugees and see how they're living in kenya and beyond.