Children with albinism are segregated in Tanzania, often cut off from families
Children with albinism are segregated in Tanzania, often cut off from families
Fox News
GENEVA – The U.N.'s human rights office says the Tanzanian government's system of rounding up children with albinism in state-run education centers isn't adequately protecting them from widespread superstitious beliefs that human albino body parts will ...
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Habari Zinazoendana
10 years ago
Anglicannews12 Jun
Anglicans helping families accept children with albinism in Tanzania
Anglicannews
Anglicannews
Martha Mganga and her husband Edmund Mganga working to end stigma against people with albinism in Tanzania through the video “Watu Kama Sisi” (“People like us”). Photo Credit: Albino Peacemakers and Mennonite Central Committee. Related ...
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10 years ago
StarAfrica.Com13 Aug
AU sets up investigation on situation of children with Albinism in Tanzania
StarAfrica.com
The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) says an investigation mission on the situation of children with albinism hosted in Temporary Holding Shelters (THS) is being undertaken in Tanzania from 11-15 August, 2015 ...
11 years ago
Daily News28 May
NGO to help children from poor families
Daily News
A NON-GOVERNMENTAL organisation (NGO), SOS children village, has started helping low-income families by making sure that children go to schools. Mr Salum Abdulrahman Salum, SOS- Zanzibar Director said when he met community leaders at ...
11 years ago
IPPmedia11 May
Leaders` spouses campaign for children with albinism
IPPmedia
IPPmedia
Leaders' spouses in Tanzania yesterday appealed for support for their newly initiated education programme focusing on building libraries for people with albinism starting with Kigoma, Mwanza and Shinyanga regions. They said they need financial capability ...
10 years ago
NBC 10 Philadelphia20 Jun
Philly Hospital Helps Maimed Tanzanian Children With Albinism
NBC 10 Philadelphia
NBC 10 Philadelphia
Five children with albinism, all with missing limbs, arrived in Philly to try and replace at least some part of what was taken from them. The children, all from Tanzania, lost their arms, hands and fingers when they were severed and sold on the black market.
10 years ago
TRFN25 Feb
Tanzanian families seek safe havens for albino children, fear attacks
Daily Mail
DAR ES SALAAM, Feb 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - T anzanian parents with albino children are racing to find safe havens for their youngsters after the abduction and suspected murder of two children raised fears of more attacks on albinos ahead of ...
10 years ago
Dewji Blog06 Mar
EY Tanzania team donated US$ 3,500 to fight brutality against people with albinism in Tanzania
On 2nd March 2015 staff and Partners of EY Tanzania hosted Ms. Maria Stanford a representative from the society of people with albinism in Tanzania at EY offices in Oysterbay.
The representative, herself a victim of brutality against people with albinism lost both of her arms to wicked people who broke into her house located near Lake Victoria in North-western Tanzania and managed to overcome her as she slept, cut-off and vanished with both her hands.
Although she later identified the...
10 years ago
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EY Tanzania team donated US$ 3,500 and TZS 712,000 to fight brutality against people with albinism in Tanzania
On 2nd March 2015 staff and Partners of EY Tanzania hosted Ms. Maria Stanford a representative from the society of people with albinism in Tanzania at EY offices in Oysterbay.The representative, herself a victim of brutality against people with albinism lost both of her arms to wicked people who broke into her house located near Lake Victoria in North-western Tanzania and managed to overcome her as she slept, cut-off and vanished with both her hands.
Although she later identified the...
10 years ago
Tolerance.Ca07 Aug
In Tanzania, using mobile technology to reunite families
Tolerance.ca
KIGOMA, United Republic of Tanzania, 5 August 2015 – Louis Cubahiro, 17, recently arrived in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in Tanzania, after he fled the volatile situation in Burundi. “There was chaos,” he says. Read complete article. © Unicef - Wednesday ...
