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Swaying her white cane from side to side, Pau, 31, steps off a bus into the noise of Mexico City. Cars surge past, horns blare and rain begins to fall, but the visually impaired mother keeps moving, her six-year-old son Noel holding tightly to her hand.
Several times a week, she makes the two-hour journey across one of the world’s largest cities to train with Chilangas FC, a women’s blind football team that she says has changed her life.
For Pau and her teammates, the commute is more than worth it. Chilangas FC, one of only six women’s blind football teams in Mexico, has become a source of friendship, confidence and independence in a country where many visually impaired women still face pressure to remain at home under the care of relatives.
