In the partnership with DRF, OIPPA looks to implement activities that engage with the government through the Ministry of Health to understand the situation of skin cancer in Rwanda, and put in place health commitments and guidelines on how the government take measures with partners to do regular skin cancer screening for persons with albinism every year in the whole country and how they will treat patients who have developed skin cancer or who have symptoms to prevent it at early stages.
We want to see the government of Rwanda through the ministry of health having commitments and guidelines on how the government take measures with partners to do regular skin cancer screening for persons with albinism every year in the whole country and how they will treat patients who have developed skin cancer or who have symptoms to prevent it at early stage.
Funded by the ERA Fund, the project’s intensions were to address the myths around people with albinism in general with more emphasis on the violence experienced by girls and women with albinism due to those myths that have been long believed by the society. To have a factual tool that will inform our organizational advocacy approaches and the civil society arena in general about sexual violence and exploitation that girls and women with albinism experience.
Funded by DRF, the project objectives were to advocate for the effective inclusion of children with albinism in education at the local level, the inclusion of learners with albinism based on the 2019 report and increasing OIPPA’s understanding of barriers for people with albinism to access health services to support evidence-based advocacy.