No obstacle too high for sitting volleyballer Nyiraneza

AFTER being orphaned and having her left leg amputated due to a cancerous infection by the age of five, Rwandan Solange Nyiraneza (pic) defied all expectations and societal prejudices to grow up to become a Paralympian sitting volleyball player.

Nyiraneza’s life began with enormous hardships – her mixed Hutu-Tutsi parents were murdered during a robbery at their home when she was five months old and her older sister, then aged just 12, took over the job of raising her two younger siblings.