In sub-Saharan Africa, Albinos are attacked for their body parts, which are highly prized in witchcraft and can fetch a high price.

Four albino children from Tanzania who lost limbs, fingers, and teeth in superstition-driven attacks travelled to the US to get fitted for prosthetics free of charge.

The children, ages 7, 14, 15 and 16, were treated at Shriners Hospital for Children in Philadelphia in June.








Emmanuel had his fingers chopped off and part of his tongue pulled out in a witchcraft-driven attack.

The boy had his big toe attached to his right hand so he could draw and write.











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According to the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, the body parts are traded in a lucrative market for use in witchcraft.

Reported prices range from $2,000 for a limb to $75,000 for a corpse.


Superstition leads many people in Tanzania believe albinos are ghosts who bring bad luck.

Baraka Lusambo, seven, Mwigulu Magesaa 14, Emmanuel Rutema, 15, and Pendo Noni, 16, arrived in the US for their treatment.

The children's three-month trip was covered by the Global Medical Relief Fund, a New York-based charity that helps children who have been injured in conflicts or disasters.

Elissa Montanti, founder of the fund, said: 'When they come here, they have lost so much.

They have lost part of their youth and part of their dignity.

In Tanzania, albinos are targated because their limbs are prized in witchcraft.


Pictured, an engineer makes a prosthetic arm for one of the children in a workshop in Philadelphia.

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Fund founder Elissa Montanti said: 'We put them back together.

When they go back, they have a stronger sense of empowerment.'

Pictured, Baraka Lusambo, seven, Mwigulu Magesaa 14, Emmanuel Rutema, 15, and Pendo Noni 16

Albinism affects 1 in 5,000 to 15,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa.

Pictured, Baraka stretches as he wakes up in Staten Island.

Albinism is a congenital disorder that causes lack of pigment in skin, hair and eyes, and affects around one in 1,400 in Tanzania.

Pictured, Mwigulu gets fitted with a prosthetic arm

the people in those are so backward in thinking. that's how some say bald headed people has gold inside their head.

At least 75 albinos were killed in Tanzania between 2000 and 2015, according to the UN.

Pictured, the group relax after eating a big dinner at a home in Staten Island

Superstition leads many people in Tanzania believe albinos are ghosts who bring bad luck.



Pictured, Mwigulu said he wants to be president of Tanzania one day.

The group spent around three months in the US, where they visited the hospital five times.



As they moved through the stages of treatment and recovery, drawing, talking among themselves in Swahili, searching for YouTube videos on Google and watching cartoons helped the children heal.

They typically visited the hospital five times during their two to three month stay.

Mwigulu Magesa, 14, said he wants to be president of Tanzania one day, while Emmanuel Rutema, 15, wants to be a doctor.

Doctors told how the children were initially nervous, but grew in confidence during their time in the States.

The group suck lollipops as they wait for an arm fitting at the Shriners Hospital.


Dr Scott Kozin said: 'The first time the Tanzanian kids came in, there was no conversation.

They were extremely shy.' Pictured, Pendo looks out of a window in the Fund house in Staten Island.

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BTW,

what religion had done to Africa in particular will take centuries to heal

As the children spent more time in the US, their confidence grew and they started to feel more at home.


Pictured, Emmanuel and Pendo play a game ofair hockey at the hospital.

End of their stay.


Dr Kozin said 'they would walk into the hospital with confidence, sporting sunglasses and button-down shirts and looking 'like they were home,'



Pictured, a USCBP officer giving a goodbye hug.

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when they ask me to be an African in my next life

Explorers:
End of their stay.


Dr Kozin said 'they would walk into the hospital with confidence, sporting sunglasses and button-down shirts and looking 'like they were home,'



Pictured, a USCBP officer giving a goodbye hug.

wickedness of the heart.
Maybe because we are so wicked and heartless is one of the reason we have so much suffering and pain in Africa.

God please let me get to my promise land intact.

Reported prices range from $2,000 for a
limb to $75,000 for a corpse.

The attack may continue the price tag serious

LA wah oo

My God

Africa. ..fvcked up black continent.... I give up mehn

AyamConfidence:
Africa. ..fvcked up black continent.... I give up mehn

God will help us bro.

Lalasticlala.

jmichlins:
what religion had done to Africa in particular will take centuries to heal

I think religion helped us in some ways, it stopped the killing of twins and human sacrifices.

hatbricker:
I think religion helped us in some ways, it stopped the killing of twins and human sacrifices.

a religion started the killing of twins and another stopped it. Now another religion is making us build houses instead of research centers

Explorers:


God will help us bro.

Lalasticlala.

Bros even God himself is tired of Africa

We have refused to move forward

Check out reasons I will hate Nigeria if I wasn't Nigerian


http://www.babasalami.com/2017/06/reasons-i-will-hate-nigeria-if-i-wasnt.html

Africa my Africa.


In Nigeria we hear and read on a daily basis human head and body parts sacrifice for juju.

What is wrong with us. Research we can't do. Read we won't read. Only short cut short cut. Is the black man cursed.

Even abroad it's the same thing blacks fhcking up left and right.

What is wrong with us.

armadeo:
Africa my Africa.


In Nigeria we hear and read on a daily basis human head and body parts sacrifice for juju.

What is wrong with us. Research we can't do. Read we won't read. Only short cut short cut. Is the black man cursed.

Even abroad it's the same thing blacks fhcking up left and right.

What is wrong with us.

We have good and bad people everywhere in the world, but Africa is just too...

God will help us sa.

All these are why Africa will never develop. The pains inflicted on the innocent people are just too much. The blood shed nko. How can Africa get to the promise land

Kakamorufu:
the people in those are so backward in thinking. that's how some say bald headed people has gold inside their head.