TV3 GMB 2012 winner named ambassador for people with albinism

Ms. Emefa Akosua Adeti, winner of the 6th edition of the TV3 reality TV show in Ghana 2012 was unveiled by the Ghana Association of People with Albinism (GAPA) as a Goodwill ambbadador of people with albinism in Ghana.

Emefa must champion public education and awareness campaigns against the stigmatization and discrimination of people with albinism in the country and also seek help from the cooperating world for their expenses.

Speaking at an unveiling ceremony of the ambbadador of albinism, executive director of GAPA, Newton Katseku, the goal is to demystify public perception and culture outdated believes that some Ghanaians have shown themselves against albinism.

He said the ambbadador who liaises with members of the general public, educates and raises awareness that people with albinism have the same right as any other citizen and should be treated equally without discrimination in society.

Mr. Katseku noted that many of their members living in isolated communities still faced normal culture and values ​​that excluded them from certain places at some point, putting their lives at risk.

According to the executive director of GAPA, some of them have been banned from their customs in communities contrary to the 1992 constitution which guaranteed freedom of movement.

He indicated that the Association continues to receive reports of discrimination against children and adults born with this disease by schools, churches, communities and other communities. Other public places.

He explained that the particular eye and skin defects of all people with albinism made it very imperative to access basic health care policies in the country.

Citing recent developments, Katseku said members of the badociation traveled to the community of Akwamufie in the east as part of their outreach programs, but were prevented by residents from entering in the city in the presence of the police officers who accompanied them.

In her speech, Mrs. Emefa Adeti expressed her determination to strengthen the safety and self-esteem of people with albinism and to raise public awareness throughout the country.

She promised to make schools, churches, social gatherings and social media aware that albinism is neither spiritual nor sick, but a medical problem born from the human genome.

Emefa has described the persistent false beliefs and superstitions around albinism as a "failure of society" and is committed to ending the discrimination and inhumane treatment inflicted upon persons with albinism .

She explained that she had encountered some of the discrimination against albinism in schools and at another social gathering across the country, but had indicated that She would lead an outreach program in the communities to raise awareness of these unjustified beliefs in hereditary genetic condition.

In other parts of Africa, particularly in Tanzania and Uganda, people with albinism are often persecuted, dismembered and even killed because of false beliefs and superstitions about them.

These superstitions are often perpetuated by wizards who have mistaken beliefs that some parts of the body of people with albinism contain magical powers.