to teach screen up, and i guess sometimes it's so for me and also to for the young kids, especially gills. close this, the sites and don't really think goes kind well than sofi rica is hoping to break the mold by finding success in the classroom and on the basketball court. she wants to help inspire her whole community. but none of that will come easily. the the roosters crow is the natural alarm clock and digging a coastal community and across gonna early mornings are bustling with activity for the fisherman, students and market. the 19 year old b to land page lead synagogue

a with her father and brother. her remaining 4 siblings reside in a nearby community with her mother. i guess what size i somebody does all the for my house. access to clean water is a significant obstacle for many communities and gonna including because sometimes i do get screwing. sometimes also get to school after her tours, we go ahead to school. she dreams of one day being an english professor. but for now, she's one of the 1st of her siblings on track to finish high school. in calling a many women are married off before turning 18 more than 40 percent of those married at an early age lack formal education. despite different circumstances. re to know, she could easily be like one of those girls all to my phrase. and then come to think of it those,

all i see that i don't how they chose to come to school and then using that he gets pregnant as any age. as i think about this, i'm like, well, i saw some of this need to bring the opportunity please out for these deals. and then me having this opportunity. i think when i go, i will say though, also give these opportunities to and i go to my for me, after a long day at school, we did returns home and quickly prepare us for her basketball training. she's determined to continue improving her game. basketball has helped motivate her in the classroom, and she sees the sport as a way to bring positive change to her community. joining the dunk basketball team helped change her life. and why so these guys, me and outside the them last year was in my hand basically location is seem like so

i need to change as you and i way i see them on this is really stuff that you need me and little one of them told me, they said to call dunc, and which stands for developing unity nurturing knowledge was founded in 2010. it's a non profit organization, the aims to empower at risk children and youth in underserved communities and gone through the transformative power of sports with a focus on basketball today. read us here to join coach mo for personal training. ok, so read the last time when you were playing the game i observed you were a bit weak with the left hand. so today we're going to work on the left side. so i would demo straight. and then you try to do the same thing. all right, and every time you have the bar, remember, you need to stay low. so if i'm here accessible, this was this in all the time because that's how you play basketball from low to high. all right, i have the bowl now. first job,

that's our cross finish. yeah. remember we're working on the left. that is going to be difficult to receive. try it. let's go to the apps they low. good go. you can just like if somebody who has seen a lot of struggle. so she really is trying to push yourself out of that struggle and you can see the way she talks the way she plays that where is socialized, life at home hasn't been easy for rita, though to night her mother is visiting for dinner. her family isn't always together . read as parents are divorced, leading to financial struggles as they both faced on certainty at work. this situation has placed a heavy burden on rita navigating between parents for support. yeah, i was it all to stay with them do i was doing their causing by and i came back i like doing what to get a new so i tried my best to bring them together. but you know,

like if i need to and then what's my mom? if my dad as an assigned something, i just explain it to my mom and my mom comes 16 my that then he yes it is. i ok then i, i guess, as i say with their father struggling to make ends need and earning less than a $100.00 a month. that's a carpenter, basic necessities become a luxury. this constant financial strain serve cents a driving force for rita to excel and both her education and basketball career and read that into her brother did their best in school despite their difficult financial reality. the it is honest, i'll say, had to go back to school and i did the housing bag, my shoes, they sold a just 2 things. so i had to get back in an issue. you know,

that's like on the school. so i had to tell my dad and my dad, it was like, there's nothing going on. there's no money in by then the one was very hot. so i had to go to my college. filled them in the way like, ok, so we can help today. so that they have given me the inbox of the, in addition to lending a hand to players like 3 times during tough moments, dunc focuses on merging basketball with education for youth. the need here rita gets extra curricular educational support to keep her on track and school paper. if i want to write for us as an institution is very important,

that whatever we do under quote, we can also come to the classroom. and also as a bit our educational side, i think we want to avoid a situation that we have kids who are put on the basketball court, but then in their classroom the following behind. so it's very important that it goes hand in hand libraries and every dunc center make that a reality only you to participate in skills training and educational classes that the library are permitted to take part in basketball practice. this has had a big impact on rita, not only helping her focus on her schooling, but also helping to lend broader stability. the i'm very have. i have come this fall because it out down. i don't think i'll probably be tied to this teenage pregnancy of taking jobs because it's only is

as important as the education is. a big part of the drawing is of course, the basketball of anybody. today's the final training session before an upcoming game where we go i lost the job, was go, i'm going to go i've run out of that. i see on the. busy plane, don't angels in jamestown tomorrow, or we're ready for that much. i can't hear. yeah, we're ready. despite facing her own challenges, rita remains dedicated to supporting other young women through regular walks in her neighborhood. she actively engage us with the youth extending a helping hand to those in her community. the. this also

provides rita with an opportunity to reflect this case of teenage pregnancy, drug ideas and others. so it help or support your your, your mind is always like i have to go to the basketball course. there is no time for you today. i'll go to the why, who is always bothering me and be like come to us. which means rita doesn't just spend tons of time playing basketball. she also loves to watch it. she does her best to model her game off of her favorite player age, a wilson from the w. n. b, a 's las vegas. a says she is always at a center or sometimes that is a sideline. vision gives a chance to she double. she should sit down kinds 3 locations and through further

partnerships with schools works with thousands of young people. today is a highlights with retailers. i gave a team heading across across coast to jamestown, where they'll face off against another dunc squad, or the retail shows offer skills early on opening the scoring the in the end, the giga side came out on top. i think that goes was 195.

we did our best because when everybody played, it is quite telling you about to do one. basketball has helped me to grow and helps her pursuing education and a brighter future. but she realizes how rare that can be in her community the sunrise in last space time i went to the side to see on boise own goals and the ways they will for the physician and the box. you see on your as a senior trying to think that friction with settings and then my kids. and yet this before all kind of defines education. and i think when, when education is added to these people, do i do know do based on just sufficient. and i think when i get an opportunity to change this, i really change things to her efforts. rita looks well on her way to making that difference. the

schools we say they're about never giving up every weekend on d. w. of the think the oh just twice think ahead or was outside the box on your but always remember to think for yourself. we all had to sign was incredibly like providing you with free information.

these are we made for mind. this is he is hungry for the future. so i'm saying and still place telling us 32000000 people live here. many of them i understand you are so big and has so many people. there must be a way to do business here though, except my parents wanted me to become a civil servant, but i didn't like the idea of getting such an old fashioned job of being stuck with dreams coming through, making money, having fun and whatnot. feels injunction stuff. september 19th on dw the

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