Kevin Mwamiri

Patchy FC

If you started a sports team, what would the colors and mascot be? My team would have a patchy outfit preferably/selfishly. The Jersey will have the Vitiligo prints below 🙂

Individuals having Vitiligo need a lot of psychological support in their places of interactions. On my part, both my family and employer have been an anchor. I really thank my family; my wife and kids, for standing by me during all this time that I tried to find myself. My current employer Absa Bank ofContinue reading “My support”

My Story: The battle within..

During the months that followed, I would take my stress to the pubs with ‘friends’. Interestingly, only one or two of my friends had the guts to ask me of my condition. I surely don’t blame them. Like myself, I believe they had their own sorrows they had to drown. From my experience, I feelContinue reading “My Story: The battle within..”

My Story: How it all started

Using the analogy of ‘The car next to you is always a Toyota’, I only started seeing people with Vitiligo when I got it. Until then, I never knew about vitiligo. It was sometime in 2008 when my wife spotted a pigmentation change on my lip. Thank God She is a Medic and very keenContinue reading “My Story: How it all started”

What is Vitiligo?

This is normally pronounced as ‘Vi-til-EYE-go’. Vitiligo is caused by the reduction or lack of a pigment called melanin in the skin. Melanin is produced by skin cells called melanocytes, and it gives your skin its colour. In vitiligo, the melanocytes die and therefore, there are not enough working melanocytes to produce enough melanin inContinue reading “What is Vitiligo?”