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is equally dangerous. floods and droughts climate change become the main driver of mass migration you could write any apocalyptic smetters you want and probably most of them to come to. the clinic for this starts here thirty years on t w. e. i i i said to me yang is that gabby is only female paralympic athlete. her next goal is the twenty twenty paralympic games in tokyo and her dream is to bring home a medal. i see two trains instead of close to the capital don

jewel four times a week basketball athletics and weightlifting. she's a single mother struggling to get by without state support but. i. i i i i i i i i i. i said to nyang was born with an impairment to both legs all of her teammates have disabilities but she's the only woman many gambians object to this arrangement they feel men and women should train separately. for was i said to whom everyone calls either takes a different view she sees the other players as her brothers. and as is common with siblings things can get

a bit rough. oh yeah. i'm. the club is like a family to the approximately twenty basketball players. discrimination against people with disabilities is common in the gambia. as the club founder and coach well knows. that first i said to couldn't play basketball. she dropped the ball and she wouldn't pay attention so the ball would roll away from what i could see was that i don't know how to make sure that that one. did do a good one i use the south and well that's the thing i guess if the first female that popped up that for many years it meant in the u.s. but twenty years yeah i'm done now you could see i'm not up to me this is for sure here are affected by the story is rooted out the belief that really. most to me

at this apartment event you know it was. the basketball players hope that one day they will all be able to compete at the paralympic games together at the moment there aren't enough funds to send the whole team abroad the gambia gives no financial support to paralympic athletes meaning they rely on sponsors to fund their travels and training. i. i. i getting around isn't easy but i said to is used to making her own way. sometimes her son helps her. i want to push my wheelchair plays. i have. fled of again you know.

i can't do it there's too much sand here. just stop looking around concentrate and push me. seven hundred can be a challenge to people in wheelchairs few roads are paved while public buses are often packed and don't have ramps. even a trip to the local market can be difficult. i know but. right now. i see two buys fish and other groceries there are only a few supermarkets in town most of which are expensive.

her son would like a new football. yeah that's how much yeah the. six hundred one could afford. that's as much as a bag of rice. but the people are going to love the flavor of what. they're given what you sell it for three hundred well if you've been there for three or five hundred five hundred what's your final price. and they get three fifteen that's all i have on me thank you all for having me. the groceries are heavy so i said who wants to take a taxi home and today she's lucky few taxi drivers are willing to take the time to help her pack a real chair. taxis are a luxury i said to him many people with disabilities can seldom afford.

well not if i wanted i mean. i want a whole lot of them even. when. them both of them of their local. yellow. here at the universal gym i see two is weight training. basketball is the only discipline i said to wants to compete in she's also a weight lifter. she can train here for free she comes several times a week. grandma is

a friend of hers he also started training at the gym a while ago which helps her stay motivated. my lad. i see two tries to walk on her own legs as often as possible although she can't cover long distances. she needs to train hard to qualify for the paralympics in tokyo. to go. wow. this is in london yeah this is the fourth time you. are going to argue. this is my fourth. athletics participate so. i came out fifth yeah i was very happy that day because it's the fourth time representing the gambia this is the twenty sixth i was

not in the games because the one who used to sponsor me did not. have the money to be made bills that's why i could not make it today. at two pm it's time to pray. like most gambians i said to is a practicing muslim. do and i said to begin the journey home. she and her family live in one of set of hundreds poor neighborhood a sea. of relief where. i was in the house moved my boys my sister. my mom and father and my brother to live on my brought us we always lived together. no. i didn't.

the family likes to spend sundays together. i said two got married when she was eighteen and had her first child one year later and then the second. she got divorced eight years ago it was a difficult time and she still doesn't like talking about it. i know what i write to. her family supported her back then and today then able her to take the necessary time to train travel and compete internationally and on the menu today is a rice dish called been a sheen which the family shares with a few guests i said to his close to her parents i'm grateful to god for giving him to me though it was difficult when she was a child i cried when he told me i had given birth to a disabled child but what the white boy. god gave her to me.

and i accept her in good faith or in. don't include it and i asked encouraged she told me to take good care of vida and that she would go far one day. and everything. i said to smother is sorting copies every day she sells fried vegetable balls on the roadside like i said too she doesn't have a fixed income i don't like. it they got me here for this they will do what they're norwalk for disabled people here all that all that all the a thing that we can do is to go outside and be there because even if you have your application and drop it the moment they see you dating that you were there to look for money. one or two people will come out and give you money and will buy

a new even if it's the stand to listen to explanation or whatever you want to do or dare. to gambia does not provide welfare for disabled people. so every morning at six am i see two sits on the roadside asking passers by for money she does this for three hours every day. and the people in her neighborhood know about her athletic success so many hesitate to give her money as they think she must be rich. but i see two made no money competing and will only be able to go to the paralympic games if she finds a sponsor. when the stores open people asking for money and there are many have to leave. i said who has been contacted by the head of the gambia as paralympic committee. so.

it's a few of them. i see two lives on the breadline she gets by with the equivalent of around twenty euros per week far below the national average her family struggles to make a living. playing defense. it's what three of us and i come back. i said to is poor but she's holding on to her dream of competing at the paralympics . despite the many obstacles she faces she believes she can make it.

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