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How to protect
Near Moshi, a mother is given advice on how to dress her daughter and is given a hat and a large bottle of sun screen to be put on all exposed skin. If bought, bottle of cream would cost more than a month's wages.
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Odd one out
The teacher of this 100+ class considers her sole Albino student to be stupid and like an european because of his skin colour. Unable to read because of his dismal eyesight the little boy is also picked on by most of the other students.
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Sister and brother
In Dar es Salaam, the children of one of the organizers of the Tanzanian Albino Society spend virtually all their time indoors.
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A mother looks after both her own kids and the albino friend of her youngest daughter. (Dar es Salaam)
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An Albino child learns braille at a school for the blind. Many of the albino students reach quite high academic grades once they can read and write in braille.
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Eye test on a young girl already with solar keratosis on her face and arms.
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Twins wait out of the sun in the failing business of a snack shack of an albino family in Dar es Salaam.
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Unable to get a job, because she cannot work out in the sun, and cannot read well enough for an office job and her colour scares people from employing her.
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Sitting with her daughter - this 34 year old mother will die shortly because of her skin cancers.
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Two old friends- unusually in her forties the Albino lady has reached an age almost unheard of for an albino in Tanzania (Moshi)
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A Carpenter only removes his hat in the privacy of his hut to reveal a cancerous lesion on the side of his head and a previous attempt of treatment which removed half his ear.
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Her dead son's grave
Howa Mdegu 58 (a widow) with her grandson, clear the grave of her albino son who died as a result of Squamous cell carcinomas (the skin cancer from solar exposure most common in albinos) at the age of 22. With one other albino daughter who is 18 and has solar keratosis (a pre-cursor to Squamous Cell carcinoma) She faces a difficult future of looking after another ill child, without any main bread winner in the family.
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How to protect Near Moshi, a mother is given advice on how to dress her daughter and is given a hat and a large bottle of sun screen to be put on all exposed skin. If bought, bottle of cream would cost more than a month's wages.
Odd one out The teacher of this 100+ class considers her sole Albino student to be stupid and like an european because of his skin colour. Unable to read because of his dismal eyesight the little boy is also picked on by most of the other students.
Sister and brother In Dar es Salaam, the children of one of the organizers of the Tanzanian Albino Society spend virtually all their time indoors.
A mother looks after both her own kids and the albino friend of her youngest daughter. (Dar es Salaam)
An Albino child learns braille at a school for the blind. Many of the albino students reach quite high academic grades once they can read and write in braille.
Eye test on a young girl already with solar keratosis on her face and arms.
Twins wait out of the sun in the failing business of a snack shack of an albino family in Dar es Salaam.
Unable to get a job, because she cannot work out in the sun, and cannot read well enough for an office job and her colour scares people from employing her.
Sitting with her daughter - this 34 year old mother will die shortly because of her skin cancers.
Two old friends- unusually in her forties the Albino lady has reached an age almost unheard of for an albino in Tanzania (Moshi)
A Carpenter only removes his hat in the privacy of his hut to reveal a cancerous lesion on the side of his head and a previous attempt of treatment which removed half his ear.
Her dead son's grave Howa Mdegu 58 (a widow) with her grandson, clear the grave of her albino son who died as a result of Squamous cell carcinomas (the skin cancer from solar exposure most common in albinos) at the age of 22. With one other albino daughter who is 18 and has solar keratosis (a pre-cursor to Squamous Cell carcinoma) She faces a difficult future of looking after another ill child, without any main bread winner in the family.
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