KENYA/VARIOUS: AFRICAN ALBINOS SUFFER DISCRIMINATION AND ISOLATION AS WELL AS PAINFUL SKIN SENSITIVITY TO THE HARSH SUN, MAKING LIFE ALMOST UNBEARABLE

Record ID: 980558

  • Title: KENYA/VARIOUS: AFRICAN ALBINOS SUFFER DISCRIMINATION AND ISOLATION AS WELL AS PAINFUL SKIN SENSITIVITY TO THE HARSH SUN, MAKING LIFE ALMOST UNBEARABLE
  • Date: 1st July 1999
  • Summary: VARIOUS LOCATIONS, KENYA (RECENT) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF TWO ALBINO CHILDREN DURING SCHOOL CLASS 2. CLOSEUP OF TWO CHILDREN 3. ALBINO CHILD SITTING AT TABLE WITH BLACK CHILDREN DURING MEAL BREAK 4. ALBINO WOMAN LOOKING AT BLACK MAN 5. ALBINO MAN WALKING DOWN STREET 6. ALBINO MAN TALKING TO BLACK MAN SELLING SHOES 7. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BENEDICT KINYUA "Albinos face a lot of difficulties because the majority does not see as if they are right people to be. They see them being different. They laugh at them. They see as if they were born by mistake." 8. KINYUA LOOKING AT SHOES 9. CLOSEUPS OF KINYUA LOOKING AT SHOES 10. KINYUA WALKING DOWN MARKET 11. VIEW INTO ROOM AT ST. LUCY'S SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND WHERE ALBINO ALICE NABWILE IS LEARNING TO KNIT 12. CLOSEUP NABWILE TURNING AROUND PIECE OF CLOTH 13. CLOSEUP NABWILE'S FACE 14. NABWILE PUTTING WOOL ON KNITTING MACHINE 15. (SOUNDBITE) (Swahili with English Translation) ALICE NABWILE "My family made me feel I wasn't meant to be born there. I was not wanted by anyone because of my colour. Nobody cared for me and I was treated like nobody." 16. VARIOUS OF NABWILE WORKING ON KNITTING MACHINE 17. GROUP OF ALBINO AND BLACK STUDENTS AT SCHOOL 18. CLOSEUP ALBINO STUDENT WEARING HAT 19. VARIOUS WIDE SHOTS OF CLASS 20. CLOSEUP YOUNG ALBINO GIRL SITTING ON FLOOR PLAYING WITH TOYS 21. CLOSEUP GIRL'S FACE SHOWING SORES 22. CLOSEUP ALBINO MAN PUTTING ON SUNTAN LOTION 23. BOTTLES OF SUNTAN LOTION 24. CLOSEUP BAYWATCH SUNTAN LOTION 25. SUNTAN LOTIONS 26. CLOSEUP ALBINO MARY KANARIO 27. MARY KANARIO SITTING WITH INTERVIEWER DURING INTERVIEW 28. CLOSEUP MARY KANARIO'S HANDS 29. (SOUNDBITE) (English) MARY KANARIO "My father is seeing me as a burden because I do need many expenses like creams, because I'm burnt by the sun and the others are not affected." 30. MARY KANARIO AND OTHER STUDENTS DURING BREAK 31. ALBINO STUDENTS DURING CLASS PUTTING THEIR HANDS UP 32. CLOSEUP LITTLE ALBINO BOY LAUGHING 33. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LEONARD KITHINJI "When I leave school I would like to be a lawyer or a teacher, to get some work somewhere." 34. SCHOOL CLASS 35. CLOSEUPS OF ALBINO BOYS 36. BENEDICT KINYUA WITH MAN AND LITTLE BOY OUTSIDE HOUSE 37. BENEDICT KINYUA SITTING DOWN ON CHAIR, EMBRACING LITTLE BOY 38. CLOSEUP BENEDICT KINYUA AND BOY 39. CLOSEUP OF THEIR HANDS CLAPPING 40. BENEDICT KINYUA AT SCHOOL READING A PAPER 41. CLOSEUP BENEDICT KINYUA 42. BENEDICT KINYUA ON TELEPHONE DIALING NUMBER 43. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BENEDICT KINYUA "I would like the government and the public to understand that albinos should be understood and should have their own schools. First of all, to be recognized that they suffer from the sunburn, to be recognized that they are the right people in the right place where they are so they can be treated like other people. This is only when an albino can feel he is settled." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: VARIOUS LOCATIONS, KENYA
  • Country: Kenya
  • Reuters ID: LVADEEHD79F0BL3O3QKCXM8TG6J6
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