NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2007: Still Photography Winners: Team Sports Action

1st: “Invincible Spirit” Maxwell Fornah and Victor Musa, members of the Single Leg Amputee Sports club of Sierra Leone chase for the ball whilst playing football in Freetown, Sierra Leone Thursday 06 April 2006. There are more than 6000 amputees in Sierra Leone as a result of the brutal civil war. Charles Taylor the former Liberian leader is accused of backing a rebel group that cut off limbs,mutilated and raped thousands of civilians in Sierra Leone. The Single Leg Amputee Sports club of Sierra Leone has toured to Brazil to play against disabled players there and will host the disabled football championships in Sierra Leone in February 2007.

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