going to get by without state support. 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. it was nicer to whom everyone calls ita 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. 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. but 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 . that i don't know how to write my voice like that what. to do or did what i use the south and i was going to think i just use the festival this. for many years to nineteen years but twenty years yeah i'm done now you see i'm not up to me this is for sure here after thirty years of my dose or 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 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. fled of 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 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 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 the. six

hundred one could afford. that's as much as a bag of rice. people over the long haul if you ever. think about what you sell it for three hundred a year 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 like your four hundred. one. the groceries are heavy so i said to once just 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. i. will not if i wanted i'm in.

if. if. i want to order them in the. way them a book. yellow. here at the universal gym i said to is we 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. is a friend of hers he also started training at the gym a while ago which helps her stay motivated lower than. 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. grew up here. this is my fourth. at it's but disappeared. i came out fifth yeah i was more happy that day because it's the force them 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 in my bills that's why i could not make it to dig 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 set of hundreds poor neighborhoods. of relief where. that ten of us in the house moved my boys my sister. my mom and five that. i brought out to live on my brought us we all lived together. and. i did. 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 a second. she got divorced eight years ago it was a difficult time and she still doesn't like talking about it. kind of 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 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 i worked at the library. god gave her to me. and i accept her and good faith or. don't include it and

as 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'm. all. for it we gotta be 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 there because even if you have your application and drop it the moment they see you dating that you were there to look for my little. one or two people who come and give you money and live in the stand to listen to your explanation or whatever you want to do with.

the 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. when defense. it's what korea was unethical about. 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. thanks.

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