{DAR ES SALAAM residents will have the chance to learn and understand challenges facing people who live with albinism, through emotional pictures taken by one photojournalist Jacquelyn Martin.}
The well-captured pictures with touchy messages portray people including children with albinism who are discriminated and at times targets of ritual killings.
Inaugurating the ‘Tribal of Ghost’ photographic exhibition at the National Museum of Tanzania (NMT) in Dar es Salaam, the Under the Same Sun Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mr Peter Ash, said through the exhibition which is expected to last for two months, the general public shall have the chance to learn and leave aside bad perception they have towards people with albinism.
“Pictures speak more than words and we hope many Tanzanians and people from nearby countries can visit here and learn from the pictures displayed on museum walls and we hope from there they will discredit myths and prejudices about people with albinism,” he said.
He went further and asked Tanzanians to call them ‘person with albinism’ instead of ‘albinos’ which is discriminative and ultimately make them uncomfortable. Meanwhile, World Bank (WB) Programme Leader, Mr Yutaka Yoshino, who represented Ms Bella Bird, the country director, said people with albinism and other forms of disabilities need to be treated equally and their rights to live and access to proper education, health and development must be respected.
“WB does not only support economic projects, but also education projects as well like this of educating the society to see people with albinism as the normal people and stop the discrimination existed for many years,” he said.
WB sponsored 400 students’ transportation costs to visit the museum to support the fighting under the same sun and other activists fighting to make sure the students with albinism face no discrimination in schools compound.
Guest of Honour, Principal Secretary (PS) for Natural Resources and Tourism, whose speech was read on his behalf by National Museum Director General, Prof Audax Mabula, promised the government will continue with the war declared against the killing of people with albinism and guaranteed equally rights to person with albinism and all other forms of disabilities.
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