TARLAC CITY— For two persons with disabilities (PWDs) here in Tarlac
province, dreaming big simply means being able to play their favorite sports like professional athletes.
One dreams of being a basketball player despite having only one leg and no hands, while another dreams of being a boxer despite having just one hand, underdeveloped fingers and no feet.
Standing at just four feet, Maximo Bonilla runs the fast break on one leg, grabs the ball even if he has no hands, rebounds, and then does a lay-up.
The 37-year-old Bonilla once dreamed of counting himself among the PWD athletes who would represent the country in international PWD athletic events such as the recently concluded 2012 Paralympic Games in London. But he acknowledges that it is already too late for him to be a paralympian and so contents himself with being a star in his own right in Tarlac City.
