Congo-Kinshasa: Living With Down's Syndrome in Kinshasa, DRC

15 August 2016

Kinshasa — In a suburb of Kinshasa, a tightknit community gathers for lunch in a backyard. It is one of the few spaces in the city where its members go unnoticed and their families enjoy a short reprieve from daily discrimination.

Traditionally believed to be evil spirits, people living with Down's syndrome are excluded from Congolese society, taunted by their peers.

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