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how climate change and environmental conservation is taking shape around the world and how we can make a difference. knowledge grows through sharing. download it now for the a musket was more than just a game. is my passion, my temples, and it to 14 grand nothing. i give you sometimes it's so for me and also to for the young kids, especially gills. both 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 as the natural alarm clock in giga, a coastal community and a truck gone up early mornings are bustling with activity for the fisherman. students and market the 19 year old retail empty lips and a gay with her father and brother. her remaining 4 siblings reside in a nearby community with her mother. i guess what size i found this already for my house. access to clean water is a significant obstacle for many communities and gonna including because sometimes it gets great. 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 black, formal education, despite different circumstances, re to know, she could easily be like one of those girls all to my phrase it in come to think of it those, all i see that i don't how they chose to come to school and then using that she gets pregnant as any age. but as i think about this, i'm like, well, i saw some of this need to bring the opportunities 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, the and i was i ok then let's get was in my hand. basically. location is anyway. so i need to jane is you, and i way i see them on this is the stuff that you need me. and little one of them told me they said to call doug on, 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 gonna through the transformative power of sports with a focus on basketball. today. betus here to join coach mon 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 re to navigating between parents for support. yeah, i was it all to stay with them. do always think they're causing by and i came back, i realize doing what you get anymore. 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 who 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 we thought enter brother did their best in school despite their difficult financial reality. the, it is honest, honestly had to go back to school and i did, they have in back my shoes, they support 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 anyway like ok. so we can help today so that they have some given media inbox to 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 retail 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 funding behind. so it's very important that it goes hand in hand libraries and every dunc center make that are 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 to have come this fall because the, i don't, 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 everybody. today's the final training session before an upcoming game where we go. all right, well the was, that was go,

i go i've run out of that. i see on. busy a plane dunc angel's in jamestone, tomorrow, 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 and her community. the. this also provides rita with an opportunity to reflect the in this case of teenage pregnancy, drug i, me and others. so it help or support you'll, you'll, you'll mind is always like, i have to go to the basketball, but there is no time for you today. i'll go to the why, who is always letting me like comes with 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 when she gets a chance to she double. she should sit duncan's 3 locations and through further partnerships with schools works with thousands of young people. the today is the highlights with retailers. i gave a team heading across across coast to james town, where they'll faced off against another dunc squad to the

retail. the shows offer skills early on opening the scoring the in the end, the giga side came out on top. i think that's close was 195. we did our best because when nobody played, it is quite telling about today the one basketball has helped me to grow and helps her pursuing education and a brighter future, which she realizes how rare that can be in her community. the sunrise in las vegas time i went to the c side. let's see young boys, young girls, and every know boys they will for the information. and then when you about to see on your as

a senior trying to think that friction with settings and then my kids. and yet this before i kind of defined education. and i think when, when education is added to this, people do i do know do based on just fishing. i think when i get an opportunity to change this out and change things to her efforts, retail looks well on her way to making that difference. the schools we say they're about never giving up every weekend on dw, the kind eyes and a fuzzy may meet patrick the pony. probably the cute as mayor and all living with

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