i want. i like. i said to me yang is the 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 gang jewel four times a week basketball athletics and weightlifting. she's a single mother struggling to get by without state supporters. i was. i. was

was. i said to nyang was born with an impairment to both legs all of her teammates have disabilities but she was the only woman many gambians object to this arrangement they feel men and women should train separately . i thought it was i said to whom everyone calls ita takes a different view she sees the other players has 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 the way you want that i don't know how to make my way back that what they did do a good one i use the south bend well but i think i just used the best premier of this power that for many years. in the u.s. but twenty years yeah i'm there now you could see i'm not up to me this is for sure here. by the short it's rooted out but if not really the. 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 the gambia gives no financial support to tara lynn pick 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. flared up again. i can't do it. there's too much sand here. just stop looking around concentrate and push me so my condo can be a challenge to people in wheelchairs a 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. i. know. i said to buy his 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 avoid. that's as much as a bag of rice. to people. over the long. run. with a given what you sell it for three hundred fifty 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 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 and many people with disabilities can seldom afford. i. will not if i want it i may move. if. i want to one of them will be in the. oh well then we'll both of them of their local. yellow. here at the universal gym i see two is weight training. for.

i and. basketball isn't the only discipline i see two wants to compete in she's also a weight lifter. she can train here for free she comes several times a week. now that. grandma is a friend of hers mickey rooney also started training at the gym a while ago which helps her stay motivated lower than minimum of 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. oh.

wow. this is in london yeah this is the fourth time you. are going to argue. this is my fourth. athletics participation. i came out fifth yeah i was more happy that day because it's the fourth time representing the gambia this is the real twenty sixth i was not there 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. do and i said to begin the journey home. she and her family live in one of set of hundreds poor neighborhoods.

really afraid. of us in the house. boys my sister. my mom and father. brought us wife and my brought us we always 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. but 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 had 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 and good faith or. encourage me she told me to take good care of vida and that she would go fall 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'm. going. to do. it he got me here for this they will do what they're. for disabled people here or that all that all the appeal that we can do is to go outside and be it because even if you have your application up at the moment to see you dating that you're good at to look for money. one or two people will come out and give you a warning and will buy a new one it's the stand to listen to explanation or whatever you want with. the gambia 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 too 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. this. 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. with the family. it's with three of us i like.

face it too 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. up. i'm secure that the work that's hard and in the end is a me your not a lot of the year and more than most and you that. are you familiar with this. with a smuggler as well lions of. what's your story.

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