DOUALA, CAMEROON – Emmanuel Koum Dime is studying at the Higher Teachers Training College in Yaoundé, Cameroon’s capital, to become a teacher. He is specializing in philosophy.

Dime, an albino, says his education signals how things are improving for albinos like him in Cameroon.

“We had so many difficulties: going to school, finding work, even in walking on the streets in society,” he says.