South Sudan wheelchair basketball team fight stigma, eye 2020 Tokyo Paralympics

5 January 2020

The amputee basketball team in wheelchairs in South Sudan’s capital Juba hopes to use sports to end the stigma of disability and offer disabled players a chance to integrate with the society and live a normal life.

This special basketball team is also a story of courage, strength, and unity. Now, they have a high goal, which is to make it to the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo.

South Sudan has over 400,000 people disabled from civil war or by polio.

Source:Xinhua

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