Alseny, Senegal: "In the street, when we pass, people spit"

DAKAR Friday, November 21, 2008 (IRIN) - In Senegal people with albinism are marginalised and find little support for coping with the daily challenges of their condition. IRIN spoke with four people with albinism in the capital Dakar.Khadim Diouf, 20, unemployed “I was the first albino in my village. I didn’t look like the other children. My mother was scared of me. She’d never seen it [albinism] before. She couldn’t bring herself to breastfeed me until I was one year old. My grandmother was...