many civilians i mean i shall come including my father one day sometimes i was a student. i wanted to build a life for myself. but suddenly life became relish a kind of sob. providing insights global news that matters d.w. made for mind's. eye. i said to me 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 jewel four times a week basketball athletics and weightlifting. she's a single mother struggling to get by without state support as.

i. was. i said to nyang was born with an impairment to both legs all of her teammates have disabilities but she is 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 for you know that i don't know how to write words like that what they did do or did what i use the south and the thing i guess if the best to me that's the power for many years. in the u.s. but twenty years yeah i'm done now you could see i'm not up to me it's worse for here off. of my dose or it's rooted out the belief that really. most to me there's an apartment event 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 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 place. i have. flared up 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 a condo can be a challenge to people in wheelchairs few roads or paved well public buses are often packed and don't have ramps but even a trip to the local market can be difficult. i know but that's what. i said to 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. six

hundred twenty one aboard. that's as much as a bag of rice i. think people are going to. get what. they demand would you sell it for three hundred three but it will be three five hundred five hundred what your final price. they get three fifty 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. will not if i wanted i moved.

no one not one of them above me. the way them or both of them would be a local. yellow. here at the universal gym i said to is we 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 a friend of hers he also started training at the gym a while ago which helps her stay motivated lower than. my lead. 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. you go. wow. this is in london yeah this is the fourth time you. are going to argue well this is my fourth. athletics participation. i came out fifth yeah i was very happy that day because it's the first time represented in 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 to the games.

at two pm it's time to pray. like most gambians i said to is a practicing muslim. more do and i said to begin the journey home. she and her family live in one of center condos poor neighborhood a sea. of relief where. that day i was in the house we boys license. my home on fire and i brought out a wife and my brought us if we all lived together. 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 it. i don't like my friends. 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 is close to her parents i'm grateful to god for giving had 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. my boy. god gave her to me. and i accept her and good faith. 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 or so because. i said tuesday mother 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'm. going. to do. it he got me here for this they will do what they're. up for disabled people here all that all that all the a thing that we can do is to go outside and get the course even if you have your application to do i'm drop it the moment they see you dating that you were there to look for money. one or two people will come and give you money and. 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 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. i think 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 can 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. abundantly.

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