Albinos in Tanzania (World 2017, by Goran Basic) - Swiss Press Award
Goran Basic
Two school friends embrace during recess at Mwisenge Primary School in Musoma, a state primary school with 820 children. Among them are approximately 100 children with albinism. These children live on the school grounds with other children with disabilities, mostly blind children, as they have often been given up by their parents. Most of the children with albinism here admirably wear large sun hats to protect themselves from UV radiation.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Photo / World
2017
Goran Basic
Ten years ago, a wave of murders against albinos rocked Tanzania. Since then, superstitious prejudices against people with albinism have diminished. Nevertheless, they still face discrimination and require special protection in rural areas, especially from their worst enemy: the sun. A look across different social classes.
