Showing posts with label Tanzania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tanzania. Show all posts

18 June 2010

Today's Hero: Hamis Ngomera

News is spreading about recent murderous attacks on albinos in Tanzania because of the price fetched by their body parts:
According to the Albino Association of Tanzania, the price for a complete set of albino body parts – comprising limbs, genitals, ears, tongue, hair and blood – has gone up from 75,000 US dollars to 200,000 US dollars.
Hamis Ngomera is a chapter chairman of the Albino Association of Tanzania and a Red Cross volunteer.
He travels to and through communities helping albino victims of violence and hoping to quench the superstitious beliefs that fuel this awful trade.


Hamis is himself albino.