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We continue supporting the albino community in Tanzania

22.08.2024

Health problems, lack of appropriate education and professional skills hindering them from gaining employment as well as social exclusion are still major challenges faced by people with albinism in Tanzania. The project ‘Better future for people with albinism in Tanzania’ financed by Polish Aid is primarily aimed at giving such persons equal chances of living a better life.

International Albinism Awareness Day - all-day workshop and recreational meeting for 160 children and youth from the neighborhood

This year's project ‘Better future for people with albinism in Tanzania’ is a continuation of two previous projects implemented under Polish development assistance in the years 2021-2022. It includes a number of activities to counteract the causes of aggression against people with albinism, their stigmatization and social exclusion. The project also aims at enhancing the entrepreneurship and creativity among young people with albinism, so that they have a better start on the local work market in the future. Moreover, the project includes facilitating an access to the oncological treatment to people suffering from albinism, taking into account a high level of vulnerability of such persons towards cancer.

 

The project is implemented within the funds from Polish Aid and in cooperation with the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dar es Salaam and other partners, both local and Polish, by the Tanga House for children and youth with albinism, which is located in the Bwiru district in the city of Mwanza at the shore of Lake Victoria (Tanzania), and which is run by the Society of African Missions (Stowarzyszenie Misji Afrykańskich, SMA).

 

The activities carried out so far in 2024 include: seminars on albinism organized in June and July in three schools in Mwanza (Bwiru Boys, Bwiru Girls and Montessori Maria Secondary School), workshops on entrepreneurship, creativity, business and health care for the residents of Tanga, as well as compensatory English, mathematics and computer science classes for local youth. On June 13, the International Albinism Awareness Day, a meeting for 160 children and young people who live in the neighborhood of the Tanga House was organized, aimed at their integration and counteracting broadly understood prejudice against people with albinism.

 

Further activities planned for this year under the project will include, among others, organizing a tailoring course for people with albinism to help them gain new skills useful in the Tanzanian labor market.

 

 

 

[Photos: Tanga House SMA]

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Display photo 1 in the gallery. Integration and educational meetings for children as part of the project " Better future for people with albinism in Tanzania’ " Display photo 2 in the gallery. Meetings with local authorities and police officers as part of the project 'Better future for people with albinism in Tanzania’ Display photo 3 in the gallery. Integration and educational meetings for children as part of the project " Better future for people with albinism in Tanzania’ " Display photo 4 in the gallery. Integration and educational meetings for children as part of the project " Better future for people with albinism in Tanzania’ " Display photo 5 in the gallery. Integration and educational meetings for children as part of the project " Better future for people with albinism in Tanzania’ " Display photo 6 in the gallery. Integration and educational meetings for children as part of the project " Better future for people with albinism in Tanzania’ " 
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