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RWANDA: Rescued albinos

Mbekeye says they are now stars.

“When we go to Church to perform, people see us differently. People like our music and they don’t mind our skin colour. We are now well appreciated. They give us standing ovations after we have performed”.

The boys also take time to reflect on the difficult past.

“People called us names. They abused us. They beat us. The whole society rejected us. But God never rejected us. He gave us talent,” says Mbekeye.

Mbekeye says it is tough being born and growing up as an albino because from your birth, you know you are different.  In some cases such as theirs, your own father and your own society could reject you. He says they are happy they were born two.

“The two of us made our own society. We have been friends from our young days. When the world rejected us, we stayed together, encouraging each other,” he says.

“God gave us talent and it’s through this that we are now spreading the gospel of forgiveness.  Mbekeye says they even forgave their father.  He says their father possibly thought of selling them because the family was very poor.

“I think that’s the main reason even our father saw some commercial value in us,” he says.  Fortunately, their mother refused to go along.

“She is the one who defended us from our brutal father,” says Mbekeye proudly about their mother.

“She rescued us. She managed to survive with us through rejection and poverty. She is now a proud mother.”

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