District Rural Housing Officer for Lilongwe Lusungu Ngwata says government is committed to improve the welfare of the people with Albinism by among other things constructing decent houses for their security.
Ngwata was speaking Friday in the area of Senior Chief Mazengela in Lilongwe during the handover ceremony of two houses worth K90 million to the beneficiaries of the people with albinism.
Ngwata said it is encouraging that since the government started constructing houses for people with albinism, there have been no reported cases of abductions, which means that the security for people with albinism has been tightened and are feeling safe.
“This project is being implemented in all districts across the country apart from Likoma where there is no person with albinism, people are very excited, and they feel very secure and safe. We believe that this project will go very far in preventing abductions and inhumane treatment of people with albinism,” she said.
She then asked the beneficiaries to take care of the houses so that their security should not be compromised.
Speaking in a separate interview, Team Leader for Hebron Constructions Tom Chiphwanya thanked government for entrusting them with the construction of the houses.
Chiphwanya said though they did not meet the agreed deadline for the project due to other logistical challenges such as fuel scarcity, they have tried to maintain the specified standards that they were given.
One of the beneficiaries Henry Masauso who is married to Loness Willard a 38-year-old woman with albinism as well, and have five children together, all with albinism, thanked government for constructing a decent house for them.
Explains Masauso: “It has never been an easy journey to reach this far, our lives were submerged in perpetual fear more especially during night hours.
“Heavy stones were thrown on our roof, windows and main door. so that they enter our house to abduct or harm one of us. It’s like I am dreaming that today we are seeing this decent and safe house for people like us. I am so thankful to the government,”
Masauso says when he looks at what the current government has done by constructing houses for people with Albinism, considering that in the past, they were not considered as important people befitting such huge projects across the country, he sees the miracle of God.
Government is intending to construct 100 houses for people with albinism in five years and it has already managed to construct 67 houses across the country, with 11 of them being constructed in Lilongwe district.