Black Albinism Secures National Council for Persons with Disabilities (NCPWD) Funding for Persons with Albinism (PWAs) Protective Wear..

We, at Black Albinism, are beyond exhilarated to announce that we have acquired funding from the National Council For Persons With Disabilities (NCPWD), under the Persons with Albinism Group Grants Programme, to finance our protective clothes project for Persons With Albinism (PWAs). The protective clothing will include clothing pieces like long-sleeved t-shirts and other unique designs which will protect PWAs against UV radiation.

Our focal points with the protective clothing project include propagating economic empowerment, promoting advocacy, and the perpetual creation of awareness of PWAs. The project will bring on board skilled personnel within the cloth manufacturing industry from the Albinism community, in a quest to promote their work and elevate them financially. Our recent trips to three counties; Murang’a, Kisumu, and Mombasa crystallised the economic plight of PWAs as a result of climate change and exclusion.

From the three trips, two major issues cut across the three counties. The first issue was PWAs having to cut down their working hours to early mornings and /or late afternoons, so as to evade the harsh UV radiation. The second issue was the old tune of discrimination and exclusion of PWAs from county projects that would aid them financially. With our project, both of these issues will be addressed by predominantly employing skilled PWAs and making protective clothing available for PWAs.  

Clothing is a powerful tool for communication, and we intend to utilise it to the latter. Aside from our clothing being protective, it will further advocate for equality and inclusivity of individuals with Albinism together with creating awareness of the Albinism community. We aspire to achieve this by including diverse messages on Albinism on the merchandise. Moreover, we are aiming at breeding inclusivity by making our merchandise wearable even by persons without Albinism. This is because we believe that Albinism advocacy is a societal affair rather than a communal affair.

We thank the National Council for People With Disability (NCPWD) for deeming Black Albinism fit to create impact within and without the Albinism Community by according us the much needed funding. We still welcome other organisations that are geared towards promoting equality, change and impact to work with us to achieve greater heights in impacting the Albinism community.