This project provides skin and eye protective gears and supplies to 150 persons with Albinism (lack of melanin pigment in the skin) who are vulnerable to skin cancer induced by tropical sun radiation
This project is adressing the lack of essential protecive gears and supplies required by people with Albinisms, lack of skin pigment-melanin, that help to protect skins agains dangerous sun radiation that inducess skin cancer. Poverty among the persons with Albinism, hinder them from acquiring these materials, that make them exposed to direct tropical sun radiations, that causes skin cancer. Large% of people with albinism contracts skin cancer in the rural areas of Tanzania.Also have poor vision
This project will facilitate persons with albinism to acquire recommeded skin and eyes protection gears and supplies. School going children will additionally be helped to obtain vision improvement spectacles to enable them study properly at school.
The livelihood and health of the persons with Albinism are improved, their life saved from danger of contracting cancer, making them healthy and productive eneough to take care of themselves and partcipate equally in economic and social ctivities.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).