Close to the capitol done jewel four times a week basketball athletics and weightlifting. Shes a single mother struggling to get by without state support. I. I i i i. I said to nyang was born with an impairment to both legs all of her teammates have disabilities but shes the only woman Many Gambians object to this arrangement they feel men and women should train separately. I fuck up was i said 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. 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. I feel bad first i said to couldnt play basketball. If she dropped the ball and she wouldnt Pay Attention so the ball would roll the way you want that i dont know how to make sure that that what they did do a good one i use the south and east but i think i guess its the best for me thats the problem for many years. In the u. S. But twenty years you know that yeah im going now you could see im not up to me this is for sure here are affected by those sure its rooted out the belief that
really. Most to me theres an 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 arent 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 am. I. Getting around isnt 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 you know. I cant do it. Theres 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 dont have ramps. Even a trip to the local market can be difficult. But thats. What. I said to buy his fish and other groceries there are only a few supermarkets in town most of which are expensive. For her son would like a new football. Yeah thats how much yeah. Six hundred twenty one aboard. Yeah thats as much as a bag of rice. People for a little. Bit of what. Theyre given would you sell it for Three Hundred three but it will be three five hundred five hundred whats your final price. They get three fifty thats all i have on me thank you all for out of. The groceries are heavy so i said who wants to take a taxi home and today shes 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 im in. If. I want to one of them will be in the. Way them or both of them of their local. Yellow. Here at the universal gym i see two is weight training. Oh and. Basketball isnt the only discipline i said to wants to compete in shes also a weight lifter. She can train here for free she comes several times a week. Now that. Grandma is
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 cant cover long distances. She needs to train hard to qualify for the paralympics in tokyo. To go. Oh. Wow. This is in london yeah this is the fourth time you but this is. Going to work you invented well this is my fourth. Athletics participation. I came out fifth yeah i was more happy that day because its the fourth time representing the gambia this is the real 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 thats why i could not make it to the games. At two pm its 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 several hundreds poor neighborhoods. Of relief where. I was in the house. Boys my sister. My mom and father. Brought us wife and my brought us we always lived together. I grew up. 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 doesnt 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 im 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. And. Encourage me she told me to take good care of vida and that she would go fall one day. And everything. I said twos mother is sorting copies every day she sells fried vegetable balls on the roadside like i said to she doesnt have a fixed income im like. I know. It got me here for this they will do what. Norwalk for disabled people here or 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 did think that you were there to
look for my little. One or two people will come out and give you a warning and will buy a new law its stand to listen to your explanation or whatever you want from. 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 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. Was. 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. When the fact. Is for three of us i like. I said to is poor but shes holding on to her dream of competing at the paralympics. Despite the many obstacles she faces she believes she can make it. Thank. You for. And without any case. Is that possible that scientists on university are researching the future of Agriculture Strips of wild flowers we could replace pesticides. Plans for. The fertilizers can
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