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Ana Palacios

Visual journalist

Albino

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Location: Madrid

Nationality: Spanish

Biography: Ana Palacios is a journalist and a documentary photographer focused in telling underrepresented stories with impact shining a light on broken corners in collaboration with NGOs such as Manos Unidas , Africa Directo and UNICEF . In 2021 she was... MORE

Grace Manyika looks at Kilimanj...in a local and sustainable way.

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Grace Manyika looks at Kilimanjaro from the old train station in Moshi, Tanzania, the area with the highest incidence of albinism in the world. She is an albino and a laboratory technician at the Kilimanjaro Sunscreen Production Unit, which opened in Moshi (Tanzania) in 2013 to manufacture kilisun, a specific photoprotective cream to care for albino skin, in a local and sustainable way.

Aisha Adam is one of the lucky ...ily group living at the center.

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Aisha Adam is one of the lucky children at Kabanga because she lives with her mother and her three brothers. It's one of the few cases of some kind of family group living at the center.

Eleven-year old Kelen loves dan..., Tanzania. August, 22nd, 2012.

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Eleven-year old Kelen loves dancing in the half-built bedrooms at Kabanga, an albinos shelter, away from the sun. Kabanga, Tanzania. August, 22nd, 2012.

Zawia Kasim, 12 years old, live...a, Tanzania. August, 6th, 2012.

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Zawia Kasim, 12 years old, lives in the albino refuge: Kabanga. She speaks Swahili, English and sign language. She wants to be a teacher. Kabanga, Tanzania. August, 6th, 2012.

Baswira Ntoteye shelters inside..., Tanzania. August, 13th, 2012.

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Baswira Ntoteye shelters inside the huts at Kabanga to get away from the sun. Kabanga, Tanzania. August, 13th, 2012.

Felista stitches countless scho...a, Tanzania. August, 7th, 2012.

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Felista stitches countless school uniforms for the school closest to Kabanga. Along with selling produce from the vegetable plot, making these garments provides her only source of income. Kabanga, Tanzania. August, 7th, 2012.

Lusia Josamu, who has the probl..., Tanzania. August, 15th, 2012.

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Lusia Josamu, who has the problems with nystagmus and poor vision typical of the genetic condition of albinism, tries to thread coloured beads onto fishing line. Kabanga, Tanzania. August, 15th, 2012.

Bethod and Biko listen to Celin..., Tanzania. August, 22nd, 2012.

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Bethod and Biko listen to Celine Dion on their old radio cassette player. They're the oldest children at the Kabanga center. Men usually stay for a shorter time than women at these refuges and they try to form a family outside in the community. Kabanga, Tanzania. August, 22nd, 2012.

Zawia, wearing green clogs, and..., Tanzania. August, 15th, 2012.

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Zawia, wearing green clogs, and her friends finish school at five in the afternoon and go straight back to Kabanga, where they feel safer playing before a government cook serves dinner for everyone at six o-clock sharp in the communal dining-room. Kabanga, Tanzania. August, 15th, 2012.

Bath time starts at sunset in K...a, Tanzania. August, 7th, 2012.

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Bath time starts at sunset in Kabanga. This is the safest time of day when albino children can take their clothes off without being afraid of getting their skin sunburnt. Kabanga, Tanzania. August, 7th, 2012.

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Albino

Copyright Ana Palacios 2024

Date of Work Aug 2012 - Mar 2016

Updated Feb 2020

Location Tanzania

Topics Cancer, Children, Documentary, Family, Health/Healing, Hope, Human Rights, Illness, NGO, Orphans, Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Poverty, Racism

Tanzania is a country of forty million people belonging to more than a hundred different tribes and speaking a hundred and twenty seven languages. It is also a favourite destination for honeymooners eager to share the unforgettable experience of a safari in the Serengeti, snorkelling in the crystalline waters of Zanzibar and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro with a local guide. In fact, the largest albino community in Africa is concentrated on the slopes of Kilimanjaro.

The Tanzanian government has found it necessary to set up special centres to protect people with albinism who have had to flee their villages for fear of being butchered by traffickers in human bodies selling their limbs and organs to witch doctors to prepare their 'prized' good luck potions. However, the real killer they face every day is the sun, which consumes their lives, causing albinos to develop skin cancer before the age of thirty if they are not properly protected.

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