Kenya's first Mr and Miss Albinism crowned

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Young persons living with albinism in Kenya on Friday participated in the first Mister and Miss Albinism in the capital Nairobi to demystify their condition.
The Kenyan Albinism Society organised the pageant to celebrate ten years of its existence and to show the beauty in persons living with albinism as well
as to do away with stigma associated with the medical condition.




“There are beautiful albinos who feel good about themselves,” an organiser and also the first Kenyan MP with albinism, Isaac Mwaura, said.
“In Africa, people have black skin. When a woman gives birth to an albino, people say it’s a curse … Even the children of your age are afraid of you,” 24-year-old contestant Nancy Njeri Kariuki from central Kenya said after she catwalked wearing a brown wig in the presence of Kenya’s Vice President William Ruto.

The contestants catwalked in professional outfits, from fisherman to soldier through to a rugby player, to show that they too can be part of the country’s workforce as explained by the MP that persons with albinisim are struggling to find work.

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