(5 May 2025)
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Nairobi, Kenya – 24 April 2025
1. Tilt down of stand filled with Soundballs (footballs for the blind), sign reading (English): "Balls To Make A Difference"
2. Various of workshop where workers make Soundballs
3. Wide of finished Soundballs
4. Various of Martin Bernard, founder of Alive and Kicking, checking logos on balls with worker
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Bernard, founder of Alive and Kicking:
"Everybody deserves the right to play, even if you can’t see. And I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to work out how to create a ball that when it rolled made a sound so that people who are visually impaired could actually chase around, hear the ball, and have as much fun as kids who are normally sighted."
6. Various of worker making ball in workshop
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Bernard, founder of Alive and Kicking:
"It’s a completely normal football, the same ball that we make for everybody else, but this one has a set of six devices inside which are made of flat metal, and inside the flat metal, we have a little magic piece of metal, a ball bearing that sounds out against the sources. We fold that in against six of the panels, and so when the ball rotates, the ball bearings inside the metal sources make the sound."
8. Various of Soundball being demonstrated by Paralympic gold medallist Henry Wanyoike and colleague
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Henry Wanyoike, Paralympic gold medallist:
"This is the Soundball, that we normally see as a normal football, but it has the sound in it. So that is the noise we follow when we are playing with this ball. And this ball is a sign of hope because it helps us not to be left behind."
10. Various of Wanyoike being told how ball is made
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Henry Wanyoike, Paralympic gold medallist:
"Before there were only a few sports for people with disability, but now through the innovation of such balls, we are able to bring more on board and we can now have more representation in Paralympics than what was happening before."
12. Various of workers screen printing panels of Soundball before stitching
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Henry Wanyoike, Paralympic gold medallist
"We are being excluded from having like two guides, (and) because one guide can be a challenge. Like when I was in Sydney, my guide was not feeling well, so I had to get another guide and I almost lost the gold medal."
14. Various of ball workshop
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Thika, Kenya – 25 April 2025
15. Various of visually-impaired and blind students playing with Soundball
16. Setup shot of 18-year-old student Dennis Gitonga
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Dennis Gitonga, 18-year-old student:
"Involving myself in futsal – that is the adapted football – reminds me about my past and makes me feel as if I am included. I am still included in the normal world even though I have no ability to see, even though I read braille, so I feel included, I enjoy playing football."
18. Various of visually-impaired and blind students playing with Soundball
19. Close of student
20. Setup shot of teacher John Kariuki Njeru
21. SOUNDBITE (English) John Kariuki Njeru, teacher, Thika School for the Blind:
"Learners with visual impairment, they have very limited games, so if this can be added to the number of games they play, it can be a very good thing for us especially in schools."
22. Various of visually-impaired and blind students playing with Soundball
23. SOUNDBITE (English) John Kariuki Njeru, teacher, Thika School for the Blind:
24. Various of visually-impaired and blind students playing with Soundball
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