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This is Juma, who suffers from a very challenging condition in Africa; oculocutaneous albinism. Not only does he burn from the strong African sun on his skin but he cannot see well because, as elsewhere in his body, he has no pigment inside the eye.
It has taken a lot of work by our community-based worker Robert (seen here testing Juma’s vision with an E chart ) to get this child out of the hut in which he had been hidden and into school. |
Kache struggled to weave as she gradually lost her sight. She didn't think anything could be done to help so she kept quiet but her family suffered alongside her. She finally went blind from cataract and could no longer go alone to the bathroom, no matter contribute to the family’s income by weaving. The local shopkeeper asked us whether we would go and examine her. Here she is home again after her cataract surgery weaving away to do her bit for her family.
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