Gatherings across Kenya observed International Albinism Awareness Day on June 13, drawing attention to the rights and daily experiences of people with albinism.
Every year on June 13, communities in Kenya pause to mark International Albinism Awareness Day — a date the United Nations designated in 2015 to acknowledge the rights and lives of people with albinism worldwide.
Reuters Connect documented this year's observance in Kenya, where people with albinism and their supporters gathered publicly. The images show a community present and visible, not at the margins of the occasion.
Kenya sits within a region where people with albinism face particular risks: attacks linked to the trade in body parts for use in rituals, persistent myths about their bodies, and limited access to specialist sun-protection and eye care. Public observances like this one create space to name those realities and to hear directly from people living them.
International Albinism Awareness Day has been marked since 2015, according to the United Nations, and each year carries a distinct theme. The day belongs, first, to the people it is named for.
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