Albino Kids Hunted For Rituals In Tanzania Find Happy New Life In New York

Five albino children who suffered a hellish experience while living in Tanzania have found a new life in New York City.

Emmanuel Rutema, Kabula Masanja, Pendo Noni, Baraka Lusambo and Mwigulu Magesa were hunted for their body parts.

Their homes were broken into, and their limbs cut off by men who hoped to sell them to witch doctors for potions. In various parts of Africa, people with albinism are hunted for their body parts, which can fetch thousands of dollars on the black market for their supposed magical powers.

Now, the kids have been fitted with prosthetic limbs, after the Global Medical Relief Fund, and its founder Elissa Montanti, saved them and took them to the U.S.

They were taken to Staten Island, where the charity is based, and will return to Tanzania, being placed in safe houses, when they are properly able to use their new limbs.

The kids range in age from 5 to 17, and have been in the United States since June this year, experiencing a very different from life the one they had previously endured.

Since arriving in the country, they have been taken swimming, had birthday parties, and most vitally, been safe.