Wheelchair basketball players hope to qualify for next year’s Paralympic in Tokyo

Afghan women wheelchair basketball players work hard to qualify for next year’s Paralympic games in Tokyo.

Nilofar Bayat, captain of Afghanistan’s women wheelchair basketball team, lost of her leg in a rocket launch during the Taliban regime in Kabul. Bayat, then 2 years old, was sitting with her 14 years old brother by the window when a rocket launch hit the ground of their house that killed her brother and left her with life-time disability.  

“I was in hospital for one year and had several surgeries,” said, the now 24 years old Bayat.  “As I lost my feet in my childhood, I don’t know how it feels like walking.”