Photos: Children of the Moon, an Albino Community Off Panama`s Coast

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Four albino sisters, from L-R, Iveily, Donilcia, Jade and Yaisseth Morales, who are part of the albino or "Children of the Moon" group in the Guna Yala indigenous community, pose for a photograph with their mother, brothers and sisters outside their house on Ustupu Island in the Guna Yala region, Panama April 24, 2015. Alabaster-skinned people born on a sun-scorched group of islands off Panama's Caribbean coast are venerated as Children of the Moon. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

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Delyane Avila, 6, who is part of the albino or "Children of the Moon" group in the Guna Yala indigenous community, draws on her notebook next to neighbours on Ailigandi Island in the Guna Yala region, Panama May 4, 2015. Albinos make up between 5 and 10 percent of the roughly 80,000 indigenous Gunas who live on the mainland of the Guna Yala region and its islands. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

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Kipigaliler Harris, 5, who is part of the albino or "Children of the Moon" group in the Guna Yala indigenous community, stands with friends and relatives outside his house as they look at the camera on Ogobsugun Island in the Guna Yala region Panama April 28, 2015. With their sensitive skin and eyes, young Guna albinos must be shuttled to and from school, avoiding the baking heat, while they watch their friends play in the streets. June 13th is International Albinism Awareness Day. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

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Yaisseth Morales, 11, (L) and her sister Jade Morales, 12, who are part of the albino or "Children of the Moon" group in the Guna Yala indigenous community, play on a hammock at their house on Ustupu Island in the Guna Yala region, Panama April 24, 2015. Alabaster-skinned people born on a sun-scorched group of islands off Panama's Caribbean coast are venerated as Children of the Moon. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

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Yaisseth Morales, 11, who is part of the albino or "Children of the Moon" group in the Guna Yala indigenous community, stands amongst her classmates at the local school on Ustupu Island in the Guna Yala region, Panama April 27, 2015. Albinos make up between 5 and 10 percent of the roughly 80,000 indigenous Gunas who live on the mainland of the Guna Yala region and its islands. June 13th is International Albinism Awareness Day. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

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Issac Gonzalez, 16, who is part of the albino or "Children of the Moon" group in the Guna Yala indigenous community, plays football with his friends on Ustupu Island in the Guna Yala region, Panama April 25, 2015. With their sensitive skin and eyes, young Guna albinos must be shuttled to and from school, avoiding the baking heat, while they watch their friends play in the streets. June 13th is International Albinism Awareness Day. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

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