Nanyori Yamat is a young Maasai woman who was sponsored by Emusoi.  She is albino and 17 years old.  She has finished primary school and studied tailoring for two years in a nearby vocational school.  Her mother is a widow with four other children.  The fact that she is an albino puts her in danger.  In Tanzania, albinos are being hunted down and killed for body parts to be used in witch craft.  Many have been murdered, mostly in Western Tanzania.  Her family is here in Northern Tanzania but even so her neighbors told her if she comes home to stay inside and try not to be seen because she will be hunted as an albino.  We are in Northern Tanzania but the danger is that albinos are being kidnapped to sell their body parts. Sometimes they aren’t even dead when the body parts are taken. The body parts are taken from babies, children, adult albinos.  Nanyori is, of course, afraid to go home because her father is dead, and she has no strong protector.

     Now that she has finished her course, she needs a livelihood. Considering her skills, donation money became available to buy a sewing machine, some material and sewing accessories to set her up as a seamstress.  There is a little corner at Emusoi Center where she can work for the time being, to do odd sewing jobs like repairs, sewing khangas and to slowly gain experience.  Meanwhile, we can search for a position for her.  Since she has her own machine, there is a possibility that she could join a group or a cooperative and earn a living.  This takes a little time to set up but meanwhile she is safe.