when you're watching the news last from berlin up next reporter about a disabled gambian woman who wants to participate in the paralympics next year. being recipes for success strategy that made a difference. baking bread on d w i. i i know i said to me yang is the gambia is only a 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 gang jewel four times a week basketball athletics and weightlifting. she's a single mother struggling to get by without state supporters. i i.

i i i 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. i said to whom everyone calls 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 know. 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 i want to warn you that i don't know how to make sure that that what you did or did what i use the south. but i think i guess if the festival that popped up for many years it did to my interview spot twenty years yeah i'm there now you could see i'm not up to me or short here of thirty years of sure it's rooted out the belief that really. most to me there's an apartment in france you know it was one of the

basketball players hopes 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 to gambia gives no financial support to paralympic athletes meaning they rely on sponsors to fund their travels and training. i write. 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 place. the. flat 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. but what. i said to buy is 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. it's

under portable. yeah that's as much as a bag of rice. to people for a little. bit of what. they give out when you sell it for three hundred fifty but there will be three or five hundred five hundred what's your final price . they get three fifty that's all i have on me for this thank you all for how to. 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. one i. will not if i want it i may move.

if. you. want a whole lot of them about. them both of them in their local yellow. here at the universal gym i see two is weight training. for. basketball isn't 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. is a friend of hers mickey rooney also started training at the gym a while ago which helps her stay motivated. my letter. i said 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. you go. wow. this is in london yeah this is the fourth time you. grew up you know this is my fourth. athletics but this appears. i came out fifth yeah i was very happy that day because it's the first time representing. this is the twenty sixth i was not in the games because the one who used to sponsor me. i have the money to be made bills that's why i could not make it to the games. at two pm

it's time to pray. like most gambians i said to is a practicing muslim. ma do and i said to begin the journey home. she and her family live in one of several hundreds poor neighborhoods see. me for. that to all of us in the house move my boys my sister. my mom and father and my bra that's why for my brought us we always lived together. and. i did. 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. what my friends. or 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 if you guessed it. i said to his close to her parents i'm grateful to god for giving her to me though it was difficult when she was a child i cried when they told me i had given birth to a disabled child. that my boy. god gave her to me. and i accept her in good faith. more don't include it and

asked encourage me 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 to she doesn't have a fixed income i thank. you. for it he got me here for this they will do what their low work for disabled people here all that all that all the a thing that we can do is to go outside and there because even if you have your application and drop it the moment they see you dating that you good there to look for my lil. one or two people who come and give your money and live in the stand to listen to explanation or whatever you want to do or did.

you can be or does not provide welfare for disabled people. so every morning at six am i said to 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

said to 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 for three of us and i call the bat. 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. so.

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