The men meet at Juba Basketball Stadium everyTuesday.
Some are war veterans with missing legs.
Others were stricken by polio.
But all of them are athletes.
These are players in South Sudan's WheelchairBasketball Association.
这些人每个星期二都会在朱巴篮球馆会面。
有些是失去双腿的退伍老兵。
而其他人则饱受脊髓灰质炎困扰。
但所有这些人都是运动员。
这些人都是南苏丹轮椅篮球协会的运动员。
Gatluak Kual Luak helped found the team in 2011.
He lost his leg as a soldier in the Second Sudanese Civil War in 2000.
Like many others, he learned the sport as a refugee in Kenya.
"Wheelchair basketball, it is not easy game.
It is very technical.
You need a lot of courage.
You need a lot of mind.
Let me say, you have to be committed.
It has changed the bigger part of disability in me to ability.
I realized that I can do anything like other people.
Disability is not inability."
加特卢克•卡尔•卢克在2011年帮助建立了球队。
在2000年第二次苏丹内战时作为一名士兵的他失去了双腿。
像许多其他人一样, 作为一名肯尼亚的难民，他了解到了这项运动。
“轮椅篮球可不是一项简单的游戏。
它非常具有技术含量。
你需要很大的勇气。
你需要很多想法。
让我说,你必须全身心投入。
它改变了残疾的我，让我从一无是处变成有能力。
我意识到我可以像其他人一样做任何事。
残疾并不代表无能。”
It's not only veterans who participate.
James Amule got polio when he was two years old.
He says disabled people are passed over for jobs in South Sudan and are called "abukarang"-aslur.
"I have a name. I need to be called by my name, not by a nickname, as my name is called JamesAmule.
I am supposed to be called that, James Amule, not to be called 'that disabled person, which isnot good.
Even if you call me that disabled person, I will not feel like I am a human being."
Already, the sport is changing attitudes.
The South Sudan Basketball Federation hopes the team will compete at this year's Paralympicsin Brazil.
"Everybody will be cheering them, and that will give them a pride and a sense of representingtheir country."
For now, though, the team wants to grow the sport at home.
Many disabled South Sudanese sink into alcoholism and poverty.
What's more, for the last two years, South Sudan has fought another civil war and producedmore wounded veterans.
"We are approaching everyone out there to have that courage and play wheelchair basketball sothat they also begin a new life, and they realize that they can still do something.”
For a nation in need of healing, this sport could be an example of how to move forward.
