Hi this is Fatmer in Malmo and you're listening to the Happy Pod.

I'm Jackie Leonard and in this edition.

I felt just one of all of those 18,000 persons you know my

disability was not an issue anymore celebrating the new technology that

enabled a visually impaired runner in Sweden to complete a half marathon.

The train bringing affordable health care to communities across South Africa,

we meet a man returning to Morocco to thank the villagers who saved him after he was crushed by a boulder.

I wouldn't be here without them. It's a very selfless act for them to do that in a time of need.

We'll hear about Penn Chan, the escaped penguin who survived, thanks to a typhoon, and the couple

with a rather unusual job share. I'm Jovin-Bellman, and I'm Mathias Lutendrudn,

and you're listening to the Happy Pot from the BBC World Service.

We start with an invention that it's hoped could bring a new sense of freedom and independence

to millions of people with visual impairment.

It was given a test run, literally, on a half marathon in Sweden, and it's probably best if you're listening to this on

headphones. The new system, tested by the former Paralympian Fat Meer Ceremeti, uses the camera of a smartphone attached to his chest and sends signals to his headphones telling him there if he's too close to someone

or if he needs to go left.

Or indeed right. It's hoped the technology can be improved to allow people with

sight problems to do a wide range of activities independently. Before the event Fat Muir whose vision has been

fading since he was 13 was excited about the freedom of running by himself.

So my colleague Andrew Peach asked him, how did it go?

It felt great, a sense of freedom, a sense of self-development, that everything is actually possible to do. So it was a different experience but really, really nice.

So a lot of people will have seen athletes being supported by someone running with them.

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