Ed will become a Standing Voice Highland Hero!
Edward Tucker is raising money for Standing Voice
Participants: jamie walling
Story
This September I am going to take part in, and complete (of course), a challenge and test of my physical (in)competence through the Scottish Highlands to raise money for the charity, Standing Voice. In the course of one week I will canoe 60 miles along the Great Glen, cycle 200
miles and summit 7 Highland peaks each
over 3,000ft high. I will then become a Highland Hero!
I want to raise £3500 so that I can help change the lives of people living with albinism in Tanzania who face extreme human rights abuses. I filmed in Tanzania for the documentary that Stand Voice started from and was greatly effected by what I saw. Those living with albinism face unimaginable social isolation and discrimination, ranging from abandonment and exclusion from education and life-saving health services to violent mutilation and witchcraft fuelled murder.
Any amount you donate will go directly, 100% to Standing Voice.
It is very much appreciated and I thank you so much for all your support.
How you will make a difference
£5 provides a months supply of sun screen to protect a person with albinism against skin cancer
£20 provides visual aids for a child with albinism so they are able to study effectively at school
£65 will pay for a dermatologist for one day in a skin cancer clinic
£150 will professionally train an optometrist to meet the complex vision needs of children with albinism in school.
About Standing Voice
Standing Voice promotes social inclusion and works to stop human rights violations against marginalised groups. We exist to give the disempowered vital tools and platforms to speak back to their society and reassert their presence and equality. We strive to nurture people’s understanding of others so that in the future these marginalised groups will be embraced by society. And in the meantime, we provide the essential basic needs they have been unrightfully denied.
We currently promote the social inclusion of those living with albinism in Tanzania. The stigma that surrounds them has been ingrained within society for many generations and throughout their lives they battle with prejudice, social exclusion and isolation. Seen as a curse from God, they are believed to bring bad luck to the households they are born in to. Many are killed at birth or rejected by their families. Judged by their skin colour alone they are continually dehumanised and ostracised within their communities.
In the face of such extreme prejudice people living with albinism suffer multiple deprivations in Tanzania. Marginalisation from essential health services has led to epidemic rates of skin cancer. As a result people with albinism only have a 2% chance of seeing their thirty-fifth birthday. In addition people with albinism face many challenges at all levels of national education system. This has created illiteracy and a low level of employment. To put this in numbers: Merely 10% of children with albinism in Tanzania are enrolled in secondary school, compared to the national average of 65%.
The stigmatisation facing people with albinism has reached an unimaginable new level in recent years with over 75 people brutally murdered in Tanzania since 2006. Many others have been left mutilated. This practice has been fuelled by witchcraft. Witchdoctors say that magic charms are more powerful if they contain body parts from people with albinism, which has led to a lucrative criminal trade in these body parts.
Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity. So it’s the most efficient way to donate – saving time and cutting costs for the charity.
I want to raise £3500 so that I can help change the lives of people living with albinism in Tanzania who face extreme human rights abuses. I filmed in Tanzania for the documentary that Stand Voice started from and was greatly effected by what I saw. Those living with albinism face unimaginable social isolation and discrimination, ranging from abandonment and exclusion from education and life-saving health services to violent mutilation and witchcraft fuelled murder.
Any amount you donate will go directly, 100% to Standing Voice.
It is very much appreciated and I thank you so much for all your support.
How you will make a difference
£5 provides a months supply of sun screen to protect a person with albinism against skin cancer
£20 provides visual aids for a child with albinism so they are able to study effectively at school
£65 will pay for a dermatologist for one day in a skin cancer clinic
£150 will professionally train an optometrist to meet the complex vision needs of children with albinism in school.
About Standing Voice
Standing Voice promotes social inclusion and works to stop human rights violations against marginalised groups. We exist to give the disempowered vital tools and platforms to speak back to their society and reassert their presence and equality. We strive to nurture people’s understanding of others so that in the future these marginalised groups will be embraced by society. And in the meantime, we provide the essential basic needs they have been unrightfully denied.
We currently promote the social inclusion of those living with albinism in Tanzania. The stigma that surrounds them has been ingrained within society for many generations and throughout their lives they battle with prejudice, social exclusion and isolation. Seen as a curse from God, they are believed to bring bad luck to the households they are born in to. Many are killed at birth or rejected by their families. Judged by their skin colour alone they are continually dehumanised and ostracised within their communities.
In the face of such extreme prejudice people living with albinism suffer multiple deprivations in Tanzania. Marginalisation from essential health services has led to epidemic rates of skin cancer. As a result people with albinism only have a 2% chance of seeing their thirty-fifth birthday. In addition people with albinism face many challenges at all levels of national education system. This has created illiteracy and a low level of employment. To put this in numbers: Merely 10% of children with albinism in Tanzania are enrolled in secondary school, compared to the national average of 65%.
The stigmatisation facing people with albinism has reached an unimaginable new level in recent years with over 75 people brutally murdered in Tanzania since 2006. Many others have been left mutilated. This practice has been fuelled by witchcraft. Witchdoctors say that magic charms are more powerful if they contain body parts from people with albinism, which has led to a lucrative criminal trade in these body parts.
Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity. So it’s the most efficient way to donate – saving time and cutting costs for the charity.