Pendo, Baraka, Emmanuel and Mwigulu smile and laugh as they play soccer in the backyard of a Staten Island, New York home. The children and young adults from Tanzania share a love of the sport and learning, but they also share similar horrific back stories.

“ I'm here, they have cut my arm," Mwigulu Matonange said, describing how he was attacked when he was 10 years old. "So the whole family came there and they found me, they were crying, shouting. ”

At the time, Matonange was walking home from school with his cousin when two men cut off his arm and left him for dead. He – and the others – were targeted for being albino, and their lives were turned upside down by a dangerous superstition that their body parts bring luck and wealth.

“They hunt people with albinism. So I can say it's no

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