The sun is deadly to albinos in Africa. We have little pigment to protect us. So we started making our own sunscreen. People with albinism have no natural resistance to the sun - little or no melanin in our skin, hair or eyes. In Africa, sunscreen is hard to come by. So we die from skin cancer - usually by age 30. Sunscreen is difficult to import. It degrades - languishing past its expiry date at customs or overheating on docks and in warehouses. In 2010, a Local Sunscreen Production Unit was established at the Regional Dermatology Training Center - on the sprawling campus of the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center.It was here that a pharmacist from Spain set to work with hand mixers and kitchen blenders to formulate a sunscreen suited to the needs of Tanzania’s albinism community.