Polio survivors play skate football on the streets of Ghana

Published on: 13 June 2017

On the streets of Accra, Ghana, many polio survivors can be seen begging at traffic lights, unable to find any other work.

But on a Sunday morning many of them gather to represent the Rolling Rockets, who are a local team promoting the sport of skate soccer.

It is an exciting fast paced game, that the team's coach hopes will one day be chosen as a Paralympic sport.

The BBC went to meet the team and to find out how the sport has helped to change lives.

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