At the Youth Olympics in Dakar, a swimmer from East Timor, independent for 24 years, greets a competitor whose homeland has been occupied for 59 years: 16-year-old Alma Shaat, representing Palestine. She says she is honoured, as people in Palestine won’t get the chance to compete at such a level. She tells any little girl in Gaza and Palestine to keep following her dream, as she does it for her people.