A community-founded mentorship programme matches secondary school students with albinism to working adults across teaching, law, medicine, advocacy, and the arts.
A mentorship network founded by young adults with albinism in Uganda is connecting secondary school students to working mentors across teaching, law, medicine, advocacy, and the arts.
Mentors meet mentees once a month, either in person or over video calls, and help with school choices, university applications, and navigating everyday discrimination. The programme is volunteer-led and funded by small monthly donations from mentors themselves.
Founders describe the project as a response to feeling, as students, that they did not know any adults with albinism professionally thriving in the careers they wanted to pursue.
"You can't be what you can't see," one founder said. "So we decided to make ourselves visible to the next ones coming up."
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