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Kenfig Nature Reserve, Porthcawl

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Before we were processed I felt so nervous, I really wanted to be in my best friend's group. I was also perplex because I didn't know where I was going . I thought to myself will I see some of my friends from clubs? Will I see my sister? Will I even make new friends?

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I was so relieved that we where finally there it felt good to just sit and relax for the first time all day! I looked around to see my friends from a club. I could smell the food from inside my big bag mixed with the scent of the salt from the calm waves of the nearby dark blue sea.

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The lesson we had in French was really weird because for most of the lesson I didn't know what the teacher was saying! The only thing that helped me to understand in places was when the teacher was miming the meanings of some words as she was talking to us.

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(Image: Peter Bolter)

Anita Davies shrugs off the title "superwoman" and says as a blind working mother of two disabled children she felt she could do even more.

The 41-year-old former judo champion from Bridgend is now helping son Cellan in his bid to compete at the 2016 Paralympics.

Cellan, 15, who has cerebral palsy and plays wheelchair table tennis for Wales under-18s, has been picked for training camps in England to select squads for the games in Rio.

But the camps cost £250 a time, plus £180 for equipment, so when she's not working for Cardiff Institute for the Blind, standing as a community councillor or looking after Cellan and daughter Daisy, also visually impaired, Anita is busy fundraising.

She's halfway through a sponsored slim, plans to do a skydive later this summer and will be collecting money at Sainsbury's in Bridgend this weekend.

It's enough to make you feel exhausted just hearing about it, but Anita, who was born with an inherited eye condition, says she's always been determined.

She was born with anaridia, a rare hereditary condition meaning she has no irises in her eyes, and was registered blind aged three.

There is a 50/50 chance of sufferers passing it on to their children and daughter Daisy, now eight, was also born with it.

Cellan was born with perfect sight, but a lack of oxygen at birth left him with cerebral palsy from the hips down.

"My world fell apart when Cellan was born with CP," Anita confides.

"But I'd always had to fight to do things, so I just carried on."

Now that her son has his own sporting dreams, Anita - who successfully campaigned for blind and visually impaired women to compete at international level in judo - is determined to help him fulfil them.

Cellan has been playing wheelchair table tennis for three years, training at Bridgend YMCA and at the local community centre, where a coach spotted him and asked ex-Wales table tennis Paralympic champion Neil Robinson to take a look at the young talent.

"Neil came along and has now been training Cellan for three years," Anita explains.

"He goes to the British Development Camp in Sheffield and from there they pick people for the performance squad.

"Cellan's been three times this year already but it costs about £250 a time and it's self-funded so we have to raise the money for him to go."

Cellan, a pupil at Brynteg Comprehensive, trains at least five times a week and won bronze in the Men's Open in the British Nationals in March.

Anita says she's very proud of his achievements and has always been adamant neither of her children would have to face the types of discrimination she did when growing up and trying to make her way in the world.

After starting judo at the now-closed blind school in Bridgend, Anita competed all over the globe and was an international and European champion in the British Judo Visually Impaired squad - but it was a struggle to be taken seriously.

When she started out, visually impaired women were not allowed to compete or join the Paralympic team.

"When I started, women were not allowed in the Paralympic team or internationals. I promoted visually impaired judo for women by giving demonstrations at events and men's competitions around the world," she recalls.

"Eventually, back in 1991, they had the first-ever French International, where I won silver.

"In my day, the highest women could go was to the World Championships, not the Paralympics. The first Paralympics was Sydney 2007 and by then I had retired."

Before retiring, Anita won gold at the 1995 World Championships and the European Championships in 1998.

And having been denied her Paralympic dream, she's now determined her son will get the best chance at it he can.

"I am one of these people that if you tell me I can't do something I have to do the opposite.

"Having a visual impairment makes me more determined because all my life I've had people tell me I can't do things.

"It's also my personality. As a child I did everything everyone else did. I even rode bikes and fell off and broke my arms I don't know how many times, but it didn't stop me.

"Having a determined nature helped. When people told me Cellan couldn't have this education, I fought for him. That's part of me and part of what I've always had to do.

"I've always had people making assumptions about me because of my disability, so no-one was going to do that to my son - or to my daughter."

But Anita, who is also raising money to help services for the visually impaired, says it hasn't been easy. She added: "I always taught Cellan that he has this condition and has to adapt but can achieve the things he wants, just in a different ways."

At home and when they're out, Cellan often acts as Anita's eyes. Although she can perceive shapes and colour, she can't see any detail.

Despite her disability she has always carried on doing what she wanted to do and is raising her children to do the same.

After retiring from judo she got a job working as locality manager for Cardiff Institute for the Blind, stood as a county councillor and when she was defeated got herself elected last year as a community councillor for Coity Higher Community Council.

Helping Cellan follow his Paralympic ambitions is another project she wants to succeed in.

And that's why Anita, her partner Gareth and supporters will be at Sainsbury's in Bridgend, collecting money to pay for Cellan's training camps and local services for the blind.

"Cellan has a competition this month in Nottingham and goes to the school games in September, as well as the development camps in Sheffield.

"Because of his age he must be accompanied, so accommodation and travel expenses are even higher."

Anita aims to raise £5,000 in all, to be divided between Cellan and local services for the visually impaired.

"Whatever it takes, I just want to help Cellan try to do what he wants to do," she says.

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'My paralympic dream may be over but my son's is just beginning'

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Anita Davies shrugs off the title "superwoman" and says as a blind working mother of two disabled children she felt she could do even more. The 41-year-old former judo champion from Bridgend is now helping son Cellan in his bid to compete at the 2016 Paralympics.

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