New limbs bring smiles to Tanzanian albino children’s faces
By Reuters
08 June 2017 |
12:22 pm
Four Tanzanian children with albinism visit the U.S. to get prosthetic limbs to replace those hacked off in superstition-driven attacks in their home country.
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