Thirteen-year-old Emmanuel Festo from Tanzania poses for a portrait in the Staten Island borough of New York on September 21, 2015. Emmanuel can recount his ordeal in hesitant English but has a severe speech impediment. His attackers chopped off one arm and the fingers of the other and tried to pull out his tongue and teeth. He stutters as he describes the attack, by strangers wielding machetes and a hammer as he played outside. He spent five months recovering in a local hospital. #

Mwigulu Matonage, 12, (left) and Emmanuel Festo, 13, (right) put on their prosthetic arms as Baraka Cosmas,5, watches in their bedroom in New York on September 21, 2015. #

Five-year-old Baraka Cosmas from Tanzania poses for a portrait in New York on September 21, 2015. The children have been shielded as much as possible from harsh truths, spared news of other attacks and the disadvantages and discrimination that lie ahead, Montanti said. Baraka, for one, does not know his father is accused of involvement in his attack six months ago and is under arrest in Tanzania. #

Twelve-year-old Mwigulu Matonage poses with a stuffed animal that he says makes him feel safe at night and that he sleeps with on September 21, 2015. Shy, soft-spoken Mwigulu, missing an arm from a brutal attack in Tanzania, wants to be president some day and knows exactly what he will do when he takes office. “If someone does such a thing like chopping a body part of a person with albinism or killing a person with albinism, he is sentenced to death the same day,” the boy said in Swahili through an interpreter. “By hanging them,” he added in a stronger voice. #

Baraka Cosmas, 5, from Tanzania holds hands with Elissa Montanti (left) of the Global Medical Relief Fund on September 21, 2015. “War is one thing, stepping on a land mine is one thing,” Montanti said. “But this is so deliberate. It is one human to another, causing such incredible pain that I can’t comprehend it.” #

Thirteen-year-old Emmanuel Festo from Tanzania poses for a portrait on September 21, 2015. Emmanuel and the other children have been cared for by Elissa Montanti, founder of the Global Medical Relief Fund ,which aids children injured in disaster or conflict. #

Baraka Cosmas, 5, poses with a plush heart that he says makes him feel safe at night and that he sleeps with, in New York on September 21, 2015. Baraka and three other Tanzanian children spent the summer in New York being fitted with prosthetic limbs and enjoying a few simple childhood joys like splashing in a pool and playing backyard soccer. But in the next few days they will return to Tanzania, where people with albinism continue to live in danger. #