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Every person who has felt the harsh heat of the blistering African sun or experienced a sweltering hot July day in the U.S. knows the difference that shade can make. Shade provides a cool escape from the sun’s rays, a refuge from the heat, a place of refreshing and rest. For people with albinism in […]

Today in International Albinism Awareness Day!  In honor of today, we’d love for you to meet Yacinta. Yacinta has a passion for cooking. When I first met her, she had finished her formal education and needed a next step. Although the center where she was living had given her protection from the cruel outside world, […]

The two of them slowly made their way across the dry field, heading my way: a young woman traditionally dressed with a little boy in tow. Their pace was dictated by the blazing afternoon sun, their faces partially shaded by draped, patterned cloth.  They approached where I sat under the cover of a concrete gazebo, […]