 My name is Jess Marks and for the last three years have been a wheelchair basketball coach and trainer in Afghanistan. The ICRC actually budgeted for the first time in its history a program for disabled athletics. Afghanistan is the first time they're doing that. At the time, there were a lot of changes. We had a doctor who told us to play basketball. We told him to play basketball. He didn't know that I was a basketball player. I didn't know how to play basketball. I was very surprised. At the time, there were a lot of changes. I was wondering what the hell happened to my life, but two years ago I was rarely leaving my house and now I'm playing basketball in front of all these people and it's getting filmed and put on the news. But once they registered all that, it just became kind of euphoric to say. They have said that they noticed, I mean I have noticed the physical transformation. They had small arms and now they have big arms with muscles. It's a really physical transformation, but also psychological transformation. They feel much stronger and they are stronger. And the greatest quote I heard from one of the players through Alberto was when he first got in the chair and he said, it feels like I'm flying. I'm refereeing all the games and it's so much fun for me to watch these guys every time they make a shot or a great pass or their team does something successful. There's just so much passion and emotion and excitement on display. It's hard to keep the smile off on the face.