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tv   Reporter  Deutsche Welle  April 21, 2019 5:15am-5:31am CEST

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sponsoring recipes for success strategy that make a difference. baking bread on the d.w.i. . with three different languages we fight for different things that's fine but we all stick up for freedom freedom of speech and freedom of the press. giving freedom of choice global news that matters. made for minds was. i. i said to yang is that gabby is only a female paralympic athlete. her next goal is the two thousand and 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
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jewel four times a week basketball athletics and weightlifting. she's a single mother struggling to get by without state support. 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 ita takes a different view she sees the other players as her brothers. and as is common with
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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 what do you know that i don't know how to make sure that that what it did or did what i use the south and the thing i guess is the festival after this that fought it for many years. nineteen years to twenty years yeah i'm there now you could see i'm not up to me this is for sure here after thirty years of. rooted out the belief
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that really. most to me at this apartment events 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 to gambia gives no financial support to paralympic athletes meaning they rely on sponsors to fund their travels and training. i am. i. getting around isn't easy but i said to is used to making her own way. sometimes her son helps her. yeah i want to push my wheelchair place.
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fled of again you know. i can't do it there's too much sand here i'll just stop looking around concentrate and push me. so macondo 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. i said to buy his fish and other groceries there are only a few supermarkets in town most of which are expensive.
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for her son would like a new football. yeah but how much yeah the. six hundred one quart of oil. that's as much as a bag of rice. to people. over the long haul if you have one. big amount would you sell it for three hundred of you but there will be three five hundred five hundred what's your final price. they get three fifteen that's all i have on me thank you all for having me. the groceries are heavy so i said to 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.
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will not if i wanted i mean. i want a whole lot of them even. when. their local. yellow. here at the universal gym i see two is weight training. 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. grandma is
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a friend of hers he 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. this is in london yeah this is the fourth time you. are going to walk you. this is my fourth. at expert disappear so. i came out fifth yeah i was very happy that day because it's the force them representing the gambia this is the twenty sixth i was not in the games because the one who used to sponsor me
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did not. have the money to be made bills that's why i could not make it to dig. at two pm it's time to pray. like most gambians i said to is a practicing muslim. mordieu and i said to begin the journey home. she and her family live in one of set of condos poor neighborhood a sea. of relief where. that ten of us in the house. my boys my sister. my mom and five that. i brought out to live on my brought us if we all lived together. before. i grow up.
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the family likes to spend sundays together. i said to 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 feel right. 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 they were going to die but that my boy. god gave her to me.
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and i accept her in good faith. and. don't include any us encouraged she told me to take good care of vida and that she would go far one day. and i began. i said tuesday mother is sorting cowpies every day she sells fried vegetable balls on the roadside like i said to she doesn't have a fixed income i'm. going. to do. it he got me here for this they will do what their low work for disabled people here all that all that all the article that we can do is to go outside and get the course 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 and give your
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money and go buy a new x. stand to listen to your 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 said to sit 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
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paralympic committee. 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. twenty fans. it's what three of us and i call matt. 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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