TANZANIA ALBINISMS

 call her Faith because I don't know her real name. She, too, has albinism and because of that there's no place for her in her home. And she's not safe in her community. So Faith lives at an ill-equipped government boarding school. It's rundown. It's overcrowded. The teachers don't understand albinism. They don't have the proper items such as glasses and monoculars to help her at school. Many children with albinism like her have simply been hidden away there in an effort to keep them "safe".  No parents. No home. No dreams. No hope. And nothing to tell me.

Adam Robert, a boy with albinism, draws under a tree in northern Tanzania

We help people with the genetic condition of albinism overcome often deadly discrimination through advocacy and education.

Mwigulu was just like the other kids, just like his brothers, his cousins, his classmates. The inconveniences of albinism did not prevent the carefree 12-year-old from participating fully in the life of his family and village.

The Kilimanjaro Sunscreen Production Unit forms part of a care unit for persons with albinism in the Dermatology department of the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College.