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U.S. Charity helps Tanzania’s Albinos get back their limbs

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Philadelphia's Shriner's Hospital is making custom prostheses for each child, and they'll be back as they grow to get new ones.
Philadelphia’s Shriner’s Hospital is making custom prostheses for each child, and they’ll be back as they grow to get new ones.

Despite the government outlawing witchcraft in Tanzania, the practices is still quite common. Witch doctors there continue to butcher and sometimes kill children with albinism.

They believe that albino body parts will bring wealth. A U.S. Charity is now taking in some of these children and providing them with free free surgery and prostheses.

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