ERBERTO ZANI
Nalumu / Acid attack survivor

Nalumu is born in 1994 in Bukeka, a small village of Kayunga district.
In 2014, when she was coming back from a local market in Kampala (Uganda), received an attack with acid by an unknown man.
She spended several months in the hospital, suffering for the scars and for the damages at her nerves of hands.
People and neighbor insult her for aesthetic aspect.
Helped by End Acid Violence, today Nalumu lives with her family in Bukeka village, making necklaces.
In Uganda, every year, are hundreds the victims of these criminal attacks.

Author
Erberto Zani is a documentary photographer, journalist and photo books designer, based between Parma (Italy) and Basel (Switzerland). Since 1998 he worked as photographer in advertisement sector. Freelance since 2008, most of his works are focused on documentary-humanitarian themes. He cooperates with companies, magazines and No Profit Organizations, for photographs and editorial projects.
Since 2015 he started a long term project about acid attack survivors around the world.

Website
www.erbertozani.com

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