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Thando Hopa of South Africa
Being one of the most well-known lawyers and fashion models in South Africa, brave Thando took it upon herself to fight head-on the prejudice and social injustice against persons living with albinism in South Africa.
“I now realize that I have a platform to inspire young girls, and as someone who never had a role model who looked like me when I was growing up, I now hope to be able to show that albinism can be beautiful and is just another kind of normal,” she stated.
Today, Thando is hailed as the very first albino model in South Africa with the country’s fashion industry describing her as “fashion’s new color.”
