It all started with Joyce Mussa. In May 2002 two medical students (Nienke Sonneveld and Kirsten de Boer) were visiting the town of Mangochi in Malawi to work in the local hospital.

There they met a nurse, Joyce Mussa, who was an albino. When they gave her a bottle of sun block new world opened up for her. Her skin hardly got burnt at all and became much less painful. Lesions healed and there was a clear visible improvement, she also looked 20 years younger. When the students returned to the Netherlands they sent her some more but this time with an even higher protective factor.

Of course she took some more sun block for Joyce with her but she also wanted to help more albinos so she took 25 more bottles which Joyce helped her to distribute.

The enthusiasm of Joyce and the other albinos was indescribable! Then she set up a project, together with Joyce, to be able to continue helping the albino's in Malawi. It is unbelievable that something as ordinary to us as sun block can improve someone else’s quality of life so greatly! 

On return to the Netherlands the project received publicity in two national newspapers. This lead to the family Kuijt of Kuijt-beheer B.V. deciding to sponsor the initiation of the foundation. On 17 August 2004 the Stichting Afrikaanse Albinos was a fact! photo tag: The first committee of the foundation just after signing the articles of foundation at the notary’s office Photo tag: The cheque and a statuette from the Kuijt family.