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Interview with Lilian Mwende Hello friends,my name is Lilian Mwende Maluki,founder of ALBINISM ADVOCACY AFRICA. I came up with this initiative some two years ago,my motivation being my daughter Elsie Laine,who was born with albinism 11 or so years ago. The main objective of forming this foundation was to be able to create awareness of albinism as a condition to the whole of Africa and the world at large. Albinism is a genetic condition that affects the skin,hair and the eyes of people who are born with it.Being born with albinism therefore means that parents of such persons both carry the recessive gene (aa) that is the cause of albinism. Albinism in Africa especially, comes with alot of stigma.some people use the body parts of persons born with albinism for ritual purposes because they tend to believe that such body parts carry magical powers to obtain Riches and reach the stars,sadly that's not the case. Another reason I came up with this foundation is to be able to lobby for funds to be able to get sun lotions and creams for persons with albinism,wide brimmed hats and probably sunglasses for their eyes and long sleeved shirts. There are also plans underway to get education funds to take some of this children to school because with education they will be empowered to face the world.For your information, children with albinism are the smartest in class and so educating them is also part of the initiative. Lastly,there is need to empower the caregivers/parents of children with albinism with maybe economic resources to be able to start maybe businesses so as to be able to cater for the daily basic needs of their beautiful children,for example,food,shelter and clothing. I therefore call upon people of goodwill to support my foundation to grow by donating towards the cause and by also praying for it's success. Kind regards Lillian Albinism Advocacy Africa
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