MARRIED COUPLE CARRYING THE CROSS OF 10 ALBINO CHILDREN When people think about raising a family, all they pray for is having healthy babies. Never do they think their child might be a sample for statistics in albinism. But, for these two couples in Ngole village, Buyende district, that is not the case. Forty-year-old Idi Gyesibye and Bernard Mwanje who live in Ngole village, Buyende district, in Uganda, married in 1996. Within months, the wife conceived. Their first child was an albino baby girl. “We were bewildered. It took months for us to recover from the shock,” she says. “I had reached the extent of refusing to breastfeed the baby, thinking it was a spirit,” she adds. But that was nothing compared to what else lay in store for them. The couple had later ten children with combination of sets of twins. “At first, I thought of abandoning them and going into hiding or marrying another man, but I dropped the idea after being counselled,” she confesses. The children wear green hats to shield their eyes and skin from the harsh rays of the sun. They strut about in gumboots to protect their fragile feet from damage. Besides the insecurity, their skins are delicate and need a special lotion. Albinos are faced with challenges, including marginalisation and other human rights abuses. (New Vision newspaper)
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 12:37:15 +0000
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