1 Tonight on Sunday ` the secret lives of P dealers. The Godfather I, II and III, you know, Scarface ` I really looked up to these sort of movies. They knew their trade destroyed lives. It's an evil drug, and it's a drug that destroys families. But they ran the risks and took the rewards. (PANTS) You know, you're feeling, 'Boom, yeah, I'm alive already. Yeah!' Now they're coming clean. Yeah, they saw me at my worst. They were afraid of what I would do. Is this all I'm destined to be? Is this the greatest that I can be? The heartache of autism and a boy called Connor. It's a situation honestly you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy. I mean, he's our son and you love him, but, yeah, there's some very tough days. The schoolboy with a dream to give his mate a hand. I'm gonna make it as big as I can, try to do as much as I can to make people know about autism. Whoo! They wanted a name. I said, 'Jordan.' He said, 'I'll do it. I love it. I'll do it for nothing.' # We are all in this world. # We are all... # We are the voices of the voiceless ` oh, it makes me cry. And we're on our way to a place few outsiders travel, a place of mystery and intrigue. Here albinos are feared and witch doctors are spreading superstition. And I was asking my mother, 'Mum, tell me the truth. 'Am I a ghost?' Captions were made possible with funding from NZ On Air. Copyright Able 2016 Kia ora. I'm Miriama Kamo. P or pure methamphetamine ` this year the drug has exploded into the headlines once again, bringing with it heartbreaking stories of addiction and loss. But we haven't heard from those who sell the drug until now. Tonight two men lift the lid on our lucrative meth trade. They're coming clean about what they did and how they did it. While selling P brings big rewards, the risks are even greater. Now, this story does include some confronting material. Here's Jehan Casinader. JAUNTY TRUMPET MUSIC You want to play the game, you wanna live this so-called life of a gangster? This is what it takes. BASS LINE INTENSIFIES Jayson Rodgers ` drug dealer. MAN: All right, the cameras are rolling. (EXHALES) I've been highly addicted to methamphetamine. Distributed methamphetamine for over 11 years. He's about explain how he got caught up in this dark and dangerous trade. Did you think were you good at what you did? I knew I was good at what I did. No matter where you live, P is pervasive. More than 25,000 of us have used it in the past year. Some people hunt all night to find the drug. The whole rush before you even smoke it can be euphoric. (HYPERVENTILATES) You know, you're feeling, 'Boom, yeah, I'm alive already.' Chuck it in a pipe and hit it with the lighter, start smoking the fumes. Yeahhhh. Jayson had his first taste back in 2000. Felt like the veins had woken up and grown a few more centimetres. Makes you feel strong, makes you feel empowered. I guess it gives you balls. (LAUGHS) Some people use it just to do the gardening or mow the lawns or go and watch their kids do sports, or whatever it may be. For me it was a lot of sexual desire. Jayson had a young family. He was out of work and thought he could make some cash by selling meth. But first he had to get his hands on it. A lot of the cooks are kids from school who were good at science. Cooking meth is a toxic process. The ingredients are volatile, and the evidence is hard to erase. A lot of cooks, they end up in jail. It's a vicious, ugly cycle for the cook. So you don't want to be a cook? Hell no! (CHUCKLES) Jayson hired three people to make meth for him. I would get it off the three cooks that I was working with and pass it down to the four workers who I had working for me. They would do whatever they did with it. I didn't care. Just show me the money. Jerry McGuire. 'Show me the money!' So you were selling to only four people? Mm. And those people sold it to how many? 50, a hundred each. Jayson says his meth was soon being sold from P houses across Auckland. 20 cars in an hour. $100 bags, $50 bags. Who was buying it? Business professionals, nanas, grandparents, builders, truck drivers ` you know, they're using it. Yeah, it's pretty amazing who isn't, really. It's not just people in the lower end of the ladder, definitely not. CHILDREN LAUGH From the outside, it seemed Jayson was a caring, hands-on dad. The kids had everything. And we loved each other. He even volunteered for charity. I'm a massive supporter of breast cancer awareness, wearing my pink tutu and pink nail polish. But others could see past the facade. Jayson says someone dobbed him in to the authorities, claiming he was selling drugs. The guy turned up, he came in, had a look around, was blown away that, no, this looks like some white person's house. There's beautiful family photos everywhere. There's kids' trophies and ribbons and banners. They rang back and said, 'Oh, we're just closing the case, and there's nothing.' Jayson believed if he stayed under the radar, he wouldn't get busted. One thing I always said to people was you don't want to be a movie star. You want to just be a part-time actor. The cops and everything aren't worried about the part-time actors; they're worried about the movie stars. The Godfather I, II and III, you know, Scarface ` I really looked up to these sort of movies. Lei Letele wanted the Hollywood lifestyle. I thought that I was the man. I just wanted to try and prove myself, to make a name for myself. But his past was pretty ugly. I just wanted to be the toughest, baddest Samoan mobster. I ended up in jail, charged and convicted for` for rape. I went into prison the second time for aggravated robbery. I spent eight years straight in prison. When I got out of jail, I got introduced to methamphetamine. Did you know what the drug could do? No, I had no idea. I didn't indulge in the drug. All I cared about was the money. Like Jayson, Lei considered cooking meth. I tried it once, and I nearly blew the house up that I was in, so I walked away from it; it wasn't my cup of tea. I got hold of a bag which was an ounce. I give it to another brother, and he came back with just under $25,000. And, um... you know, it blew me away. This here, it's better than` than robbing banks. I'd most probably make more money in a week than what a lot of people would make in a year. On a slow week, you know, anywhere between, uh, you know, 30 and 40 grand, you know ` on a slow week. And on a good week? Anywhere up to 80... 80 grand. All tax free. Whatever I wanted, you know, whatever cash could buy, I could get. You know, I had warehouses full of old-school Fords and all the late-model cars. Lei says he shared his new-found wealth with his mates. I thought that gave me the ticket to carry on doing what I was doing. SIREN WAILS People watching all these movies and thinking, you know, 'Well, maybe I should deal. 'You know, there's a bit of money to be made here.' Before they do that, they should just take a breath. Kirk Hardy, a former drug squad cop, has seen many Kiwis seduced by meth. You're talking about something six times more pleasurable than sex. So you can see, probably, the appeal to it to a lot of people. People start selling it because they themselves get addicted. Kirk reckons our P problem is getting worse. Signs are increased violent crime, increased workplace drug testing statistics, increase in seizures at the border. Selling meth is risky. Dealers are being watched by gangs and drug syndicates. It's a seedy world. A lot of paranoia, a lot of mistrust, a lot of violence. And it's certainly not like the movies, where you see it all sort of glamorous. Can that lifestyle last? No, it comes to an end. And it comes to an end in various ways. People get caught, they get greedy. It gets so bad that they just lose control. So what's the worst-case scenario? Well, worst-case scenario is that they take a dirt nap. GUN COCKS, FIRES Jayson knew his time was running out. Did you ever think you'd be in this position? No. Up next ` He was always angry, always really aggressive. The stakes are raised,... I was destroying people, and I didn't care. ...and the game nears an end. What sort of beast had I become? 1 I just got consumed by the drug. Instead of me managing the drug, the drug managed me. Jayson thought selling P would give him freedom. Instead, it left him trapped. Did you worry about getting caught? Oh, everyday. But that was the whole adrenaline about it too. See a police car while we're driving along, you know? 'Ooh.' Takes a lot to, um, live a double life, you know? Were you paranoid? It's not paranoia, brother. It's being on to it. Had baseball bats scattered around the house and Rambo-style knife up on the china cabinet. We had, like, multiple locks on each door. In one of the rooms we had tinted windows, and we had 6-foot fences that we couldn't see out of. To protect his business, Jayson used violence, even in front of kids. I was a bit scared of him. He was always angry, always really aggressive. Just teaching them that this is what you do to people who owe you money. You don't let people shit on you; you don't let people walk all over you. I was ruthless. Ruthless enough to supply the drug to his own partner, Kristal. I was feeding her. She was more or less just along for the ride because I was encouraging her to use. There's times where I've said, 'No, I just need sleep'. But Jayson's just so into it, and his mates are into it, and you just don't want to be the party pooper. You've got all this energy, and you feel invincible. The next day you're tired, and you've got no motivation to do anything, and your body's wanting more. Jayson thought he'd be a dealer for life. He signed up for a kickboxing class to perfect his punches. I was a brawler. People knew that I was always keen to fight. But he got more than he bargained for. Has anybody, uh, seen somebody that's on the` on the P? Do you see their gums and their teeth? Some of them, they lose their teeth. Unbeknown to Jayson, the class was part of a community ministry. When you're addicted to drugs, what happens? You'll do anything to get that hit, eh? Jayson started to wonder who he'd become. The drug had taken over his life, and his kids could see it. Yeah, they saw me at my worst. I lost their trust. (SNIFFLES) They were afraid of what I would do. It just, sort of, made me really think, 'Is this all I'm destined to be? 'Is this the greatest that I can be?' I've got friends, you know, living in one-bedroom housing type situation because I took all their money or I supplied them with a lot of drugs that made them more addicted. A guy attempted suicide because of me. When that, sort of, happened that was, uh, an eye opener for me. So he was someone that owed you money? Mm. Not a lot of money. It was only $350. You know, what sort of beast... (SNIFFLES) had I become? It's an evil drug. You know, it's a drug that destroys families. It's a drug that destroys and breaks up marriages. You don't care about anyone else; it's all about yourself. And for many years you sold that drug. Yes, yes. While dealing meth, Lei never actually smoked it. But when he finally tried it, he got hooked. It's when you're coming down off the drug, that's where the havoc, where the danger is. I'd be so angry. You know, just smash the house up and smash the cars up. Lei was so obsessed with the drug, he even sold 60 grand's worth at his dad's funeral. How do you feel about that? Well I really feel remorseful for, um,... (CLEARS THROAT) you know, the pain that I, uh, put a lot of people through. I couldn't see it then. I couldn't see it that, uh... I couldn't see the damage that I` that I was a part of. While Lei was busy selling meth, his eldest daughter committed suicide. I believe that I never awhi'd or loved my daughter the way I should have. You know, I just know that life would have been a lot different. I really believe that life would have been a lot different if I was the father I am today. Today P is the furthest thing from Lei's mind. Seven years ago, he stopped selling it. It was like a light switch went on ands that I knew that, hey, the way I was living was totally wrong. He moved his family down country to a new town,... Is the fire still going all right in there? ...to a simpler life. We still have our ups and downs. We run out of money most probably Monday, Sunday, you know, but we open up our fridge, we always have kai. The joy that I have today is that I don't have to look over my shoulder any more. I'm so grateful that I'm not a part of a life that was just causing so much havoc. Bye, Mum. Love you! I just wanna make something very clear. I don't wanna highlight or gloat about that lifestyle. I just wanna let people know where my life was. Nothing's impossible. People probably looked at us and thought, 'That's them forever. 'They're gonna be doing that for the rest of their lives.' And it's not true. Crystal and Jayson broke free of their addictions. He says he hasn't sold P for two years. Me and my family are where we are because of God's grace. He's always surrounded by good people now. I can trust him more. That feels... beautiful. You know, it makes, um, my heart, which was a rock before, which was really tough, it softens it. Whoo-hoo. Keep an eye on it. What is your life like now? Relaxed, easy-going. We're not stressing about where Dad is. No longer destroying people's homes, he's now fixing them up. From two years ago, as a full-blown meth dealer, to two years later starting up my own business and things like that, who would have thought, you know? Jayson and Lei say they wasted the money they made and there's none left. Neither of them were prosecuted. Some days I question, 'Will I still be safe? Will my family still be safe?' Both men want to make the most of their second chances by encouraging others. I'm ashamed of what I did. I'm only but sharing my testimony just to inspire people and to show them hope. I think it's great. If these people have turned their lives around, you know, they deserve a chance. They've been there first-hand, so we need to listen to what they've got to say. To the parents out there whose children are going through the same thing that I went through, just don't give up; don't give up on them. How does it feel to be free of the drug? Peaceful. Feels light. You know, just feel like a bird, feel you can fly. You couldn't pay me a million bucks to go back to where we were. < Really? Yep. UPLIFTING MUSIC Very powerful. Now, if you're struggling with addiction, there are people who can help. Phone the confidential Alcohol Drug Helpline on 0800 787 797. Well, later we journey into Lake Victoria, Africa, where albino people have been forced to take refuge from poachers. But up next ` the schoolboy who wrote a song about autism for his mate and then created something special with some of our biggest names in music. I'm just a guy who's a 16-year-old kid who wrote the song. Actually, you're the kid bunking school, I'll just say,... LAUGHS: Yeah. ...in the same place where Kanye West, Lorde and Crowded House have all recorded. Yeah. What was going through your head? I don't know what was going through my head. I was more thinking, 'This is out of my league. This whole place is` This is too professional for me.' # We are the voices of the voiceless # for the ones standing in the shadows. # 1 Welcome back. What do you do when a friend needs a hand? Well, when you're a budding musician like 16-year-old schoolboy Kane Chong and your mate Connor suffers with autism, you do what you do best ` pick up a guitar, then your phone and start calling in some big names. The result ` a song that's being launched right here on Sunday tonight, a song Kane hopes will touch your heart and help nearly 80,000 other NZers. This from Janet McIntyre. # We are the voices of the voiceless. Ahh... # He's meant to be swotting for exams, but Kane Chong's got a gig at one of the glitziest recording studios in town. I'm just a guy. I'm just a 16-year-old kid who wrote this song. Actually, you're the kid bunking school, I'll just say,... LAUGHS: Yeah. ...in the same place where Kanye West, Lorde and Crowded House have all recorded. Yeah. What was going through your head? I don't know what was going through my head. I was more thinking, 'This is out of my league. This whole place is` this is too professional for me.' When Kane Chong wrote the song for his buddy Connor Chin,... He's basically changed my perception of life. ...Kane never dreamed who'd end up singing it ` Whoo! (LAUGHS) They wanted a name. I said, 'Jordan.' He said, 'I'll do it. I love it. I'll do it for nothing.' ex-Exponent Jordan Luck. NZ's most successful top-20 songwriter, we had him in the room. It was a gas. And ex-Split Enz bassist Mike Chunn pulling it all together. There was the team, a band of strangers who had never done anything together before, but I just somehow knew it was gonna be a million dollars. This little project idea that I had, I had no idea if it would work or not. Let's try this out. It was just mind-boggling for me. The project is about Kane's mate Connor. He's 16 as well, my age. And our birthdays are six weeks apart, and we've grown up together all our lives, really. Kane and Connor hang out, go on holidays together. They see the best in each another. Connor is one of the smartest people I know. He can jump on a computer, open up 30 tabs and work them all to how he wants them just perfectly, and I'm just sitting there working two, going, 'How am I supposed to do this?' Is he smarter than you? I definitely would say he` he knows what he's doing a lot more than I do. We can't get Connor off his computer, so at one stage we were really worried that it was a very bad thing, so we, uh, put a password on so that he wouldn't be able to get on unless we gave him access. Well, he cracked the password three times, and so, you know, we gave up. We made the third password very difficult, but he still cracked it. We're not sure how. But Connor's parents, Robyn and Richard, an optometrist, live with the day-to-day reality of a child, their second son, diagnosed as autistic when he was 2. You know, the situation honestly you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy. I mean, he's our son and you love him, but, yeah, there are some very tough days, yeah, days you don't want to do. Tell me about some of those days. Doesn't conversation you. You can't` I mean, he understands, he answers you, but he doesn't conversation you, which, you know, conversation's a big thing with your kids. And you realise it's not just for today or this week; it's forever. So how do you communicate with him? Well, we try and teach him what's right and wrong, um, how things are done, what to do, and he seems to understand and he does it, but he doesn't talk to you about it. Does he show you love? Mm, not really, no. He doesn't hug or kiss you? Maybe a hug if I ask. No kisses (LAUGHS) at all. How tough is that? > Quite tough. Mm. Gonna start moving around with the PVA glue. The hot glue's only to start. Connor goes to school at the MacLean unit, part of Mt Roskill Grammar, where his day is tightly structured. He doesn't like surprises. OK, so you're pushing them all up like that. And where he's often alone, Connor struggles to connect with other children. We got an email from the school. They had cross-country for junior students, and he didn't do it, and I asked him why he didn't do it, and then he looked at me and he had a very sad face, and he said, um, 'Not normal. Not normal. I'm not normal. You know, I'm a freak.' And I said, 'What do you mean, Connor? What do you`?' Someone said that to him at school that day. It's obviously very hard on you two. > Yep. Is that because of the pain he feels or the pain you feel? Oh, both. Both. (CRIES) POIGNANT MUSIC If you were with a bunch of mates, how would you encourage them to be with Connor? So I definitely would, um, tell all my friends just to include him, I guess, and just sort of don't push him away. Because if you push him away, he's not gonna want to be with you. ALL PLAY UPBEAT SONG It got Kane thinking. could he, an ordinary 16-year-old from a highly musical family, with a dad who collects guitars, could Kane do something that could to help his friend and others like Connor? It sort of came to me, I guess, just really randomly, saying` just singing some lines in the chorus that we have so far. He wrote a song and asked friends to pitch in. I'm gonna make it as big as I can, try and do as much as I can to make people know about autism. And pretty soon, through a friend of a friend of a friend,... (PLAYS 'I GOT YOU') ...Mike Chunn was listening to Kane Chong's demo tape. Yes, there's a beautiful ensemble of people. There's the Chinns and Chongs and the Chunns. That doesn't happen every day. What's going on? It's like watching ping-pong. (LAUGHS) Chunn, Chinn, Chong. KANE: # We are the voices of the voiceless. # Kane's demo was going to need some work, but the basics were there. The song had a hook. (SINGS) 'We are the voices of the voiceless.' There's a hook. The ones that you know have hooks are the ones that you have to play again. You go, 'I have to hear it again. I have to hear it again.' They're the ones that draw you in, and the song goes into your heart, and they stay there. # I got you... # Mike Chunn, who as a young man himself played bass in Split Enz, now runs the Play it Strange competition, spotting songwriting talent in teenagers, but he's heard few songs quite like Kane's. I loved the theme of it, that` that a 16-year-old could write a song with a theme that we should all listen to and take note of. Kane's song We Are One he says speaks to us all. How do we know how to set a prize? We will need to have a... He's a student at ACG Parnell College. and also the great-grandson of Chinese who immigrated to NZ over a century ago. < Do you think you yourself, though, have you been misunderstood or have people make assumptions about you? Yeah, that can definitely be said. People don't see who we are. They just sort of think, 'Oh, they're Chinese. They say` Someone will say to me, 'Oh, Kane, there's some Chinese writing on this on this package. 'Can you read it for me?' and I sort of look at them just really funny and just go, 'Dude, I'm worse at Chinese than you are, probably. Build your own creation with eight-in-one instructions. In eight-in-one instructions. It's not known why the brains of autistic children are somehow different. There are no statistics, but an estimated 77,000 NZers are on the spectrum, ranging from mild to severe. I got this. You got that one already? Yes. LAUGHTER Some will go on to achieve remarkable things, exploiting their gifts. Others will need care all their lives. What do you imagine the future holds for Connor? Don't know. A lot relies on what we can do personally. And if we're not here, then don't know. So how do you face the prospect of caring him for the rest of your lives? Um, you know, he's more than just your obligation. There is a significant number of broken families over autistic kids, and unfortunately generally the father just can't cope and they just walk away. Can you understand that? For me personally, no, but I do understand from, you know, for some how difficult it is some days. Even in the good times, um, there's always this thing day in and day out that you just can't get past. ROCK MUSIC I would say I'm not nervous right now, but, as we all know, I'd be lying. LAUGHTER Kane was a guest speaker at the recent Autism NZ conference in Wellington and where he played We Are One. Connor's the reason I wrote this song, and I'm very pleased to call him my friend. # We are the voices of the voiceless, for the ones that... The fact that he thought about Connor, the fact that he wanted to do something ` fantastic, you know? You can't, you know` You can't ask much more than that. You know, they are true friends. # We are the voices of the voiceless. As the choir kicks in, to me it's like the embodiment of all young autistic children. # We are one. # We are the voices of the voiceless. We are... # It's as if they're singing it to us, we are the voices of the voiceless. Oh. It makes me cry. It does. # Ahh, ahh. # And if you like Kane's song, We Are One, it has just been posted to iTunes, with all proceeds going to Autism NZ. There's a link on our Facebook page. Well, next we meet the man who's taking on the witch doctors to save the lives of people with albinism in Africa. Hiya. It looks like a happy, functioning primary school. Ahh! ALL SING IN AFRICAN LANGUAGE But the words the children are singing tell the true story of why they are here. ALL SING IN AFRICAN LANGUAGE SOMBRE MUSIC And the razor wire and bars, a stark physical reality of the risk they face. 1 Welcome back. Being born white, being born with the albino skin condition is putting innocent children and adults at risk. Witch doctors in Tanzania are spreading the myth that albino body parts, their limbs, will make you rich. It's a deadly myth that's turning to murder. In the last decade in Tanzania, there's been 185 reported killings of ghost people, as they call people with albinism. Here's reporter Steve Pennells with the man who's fighting for change. We're on our way to a place few outsiders ever travel, where some of the most unique people on Earth have made their home, an island in the middle of Tanzania's mighty Lake Victoria. In Africa, uh, people, they believe much on superstition. THUNDER BOOMS It's a place of mystery and intrigue. Many of the stories were the same. You know, these myths, these legends that people can float on water or see in the dark. I'm travelling with filmmaker and activist Harry Freeland to meet the ghost people of Ukerewe. This island surrounded by water and was four hours from the mainland, this community that had formed this society to look out for each other. HORN BLARES EERIE MUSIC I was called maybe a white ghost or a devil. Sometimes other people, they were like, 'Oh my goodness, this person is ghost.' And I was asking my mother, 'Mum, tell me the truth. Am I a ghost?' TENSE MUSIC Josephat Torner is one of Tanzania's ghost people, striking albinos cursed by a gene mutation traced to a single ancestor 2500 years ago. I asked my mother, 'Why am I different? Why if I go to the sun, I get burnt?' Of course, the answer to her was, 'It's the will of God. 'The way how you are is the will of God.' I didn't know if the will of God, why am I different, why others are black? For much of his life, Josephat's been marked for murder or mutilation because of the colour of his skin. His parents were told that their son was better off dead and they should poison him. After seeing that I'm white, my father and my mother were advised at that time with some of the community members they need to end my life. Josephat was one of 35 children, the only person with albinism, you know, rejected by his own brothers and sisters, yet you see how strong he is. In these parts, people are deeply superstitious. They fear the albinos, a fear fuelled by witch doctors,... PEOPLE WAIL ...who even in this day wield great power. OMINOUS MUSIC While they proclaim albinos are dangerous alive, bizarrely, they say dead, they can bring great fortune. People started to hunt us like wild animals and they started to chop our body parts in different ways, because of believing if you get the body parts of people with albinism, you'll become rich. The witch doctors have brainwashed these villagers into believing that potions made from the bodies of albinos have mystical powers. The elixir is said to bring great success and happiness. The younger the victim, the more valuable they are. The real toll is hard to know. Many people with albinism have simply disappeared. Other attacks and murders haven't been reported. The ones who have survived the attacks have been left mutilated. Say, a femur from a person with albinism could go for $1000 or more. Murray Brilliant is a geneticist whose studies have brought him to Tanzania to document the victims of this brutal phenomenon. We all have differences in our DNA, most of which, um, we can't see. Hi, Professor. Hi, Samuel. How are you? I'm very fine. We have different hair colour, eye colour, skin colour, um, and these are all from genes. So to say that one particular genetic difference is worth murdering a human being is obscene. CHILDREN SING IN AFRICAN LANGUAGE With a price on their heads, the albinos have been forced to take refuge in remote areas, away from the poachers. Hiya! It looks like a happy, functioning primary school. Ahh! ALL SING IN AFRICAN LANGUAGE But the words the children are singing tell the true story of why they are here. ALL SING IN AFRICAN LANGUAGE And the razor wire and bars, a stark physical reality of the risk they face. But, sadly, even here they're not truly safe. OMINOUS MUSIC There are high walls around this place covered in barbed wire. It's meant to be for their own protection, but it's incredibly sad. And the whole issue here in Tanzania is very very sensitive. Sunday Night was only allowed to come here on the condition that we had a government adviser with us at all times, night and day. And the only reason I can tell you this is because for the first time in our shoot, he's just stepped away. SOMBRE MUSIC Some of these camps have 300 children with albinism. They're surrounded by high walls, guarded by police at night, some of them severely traumatised. But the albinos, led by Josephat, are fighting back. He's become an outspoken campaigner for his hunted people. (SPEAKS AFRICAN LANGUAGE) OMINOUS MUSIC He's gone so far as to bravely trek deep into a cave to confront one of the many witch doctors promoting the despicable trade in albino parts. (SPEAKS AFRICAN LANGUAGE) (SPEAKS AFRICAN LANGUAGE) Changing the beliefs of witch doctors is a huge challenge, but life is getting better and safer for albinos. STRINGS MUSIC So, this is what you've built? Yeah, this is the building that will provide, sort of, training for people with albinism on Ukerewe. Harry Freeland has launched a charity and built a community centre where albinos can learn and work in safety. And what's the ultimate goal? The ultimate goal is to create more jobs and break down the barriers of discrimination. And we're seeing that ` those barriers being broken down already. You know, real acceptance is taking place. And here we're gonna have sewing machines. A sign of how life is changing is this young man, Vedastus, who was living in destitute conditions when Harry first filmed him. He was an outcast. This is Vedastus today, standing out in a crowd and among Harry's proud workforce. When I first met Vedastus in 2006, he was a 14-year-old boy. He was rejected by his father when he was born. Um, he was kicked out of school, and today is a boy who's graduated. He now speaks a bit of English. He's just met a girlfriend. All his dreams he had when he was young are coming true, and life's really really changing for him. Brilliant. Yeah. I'm very proud of him. So over the next three years, they're providing 4200 vision devices for children with albinism. Albinos have extremely sensitive eyes, and many have poor eyesight. Harry's charity is providing prescription glasses to thousands of schoolchildren. The aim is ensuring a better education and a more certain future. PEOPLE CHATTER That's nice. Yeah, this is perfect. Yeah? Sure. Can you show me? The visual impairment of a person with albinism is` is one of the biggest barriers in the classroom for a child with albinism. Getting vision care is a vital thing. It's something they've never received in Tanzania before, so we provide prescription glasses, monocular telescopes. They can see the blackboard. Uh, sunglasses, magnifiers to help them read and make the writing bigger in their textbooks. You focus on something far away. Oh my goodness! Focus on those lines. How is it? Yeah. It's bringing it closer. It's bringing it closer? (LAUGHS) Yeah. Closer. So imagine if you had this when you were young in the classroom, being able to see the little details when they're writing. I wish if I could get this before. Yeah, sure. Um, we all, I think, everyone here, knows about the suffering that people with albinism had faced in Tanzania. The struggle is far from over, but the campaign, led by Josephat, is making the future brighter than ever. I don't think he ever will stop. No, he's tireless. There's a line he says ` that one day we'll all sit around the same table. I think that's the thing he's always thinking about and that's his kind of thing that keeps him going, that one day they'll be accepted. When is that day? I think it's coming. Um, I hope he'll witness it in his lifetime. Certainly in Vedastus', I'm sure we'll get there. So let's just hope that the future is brighter, there'll be wider acceptance. Well, next we give you a peek at a mythical art collection that's coming up for auction. This is an absolute treasure trove. This is a moment of NZ art historical significance that I'm not aware of occurring before and perhaps won't ever occur again. Collectors are smart, and they will recognise, just as I do, that this is an opportunity that may not come along again. This is a moment in history. Done. 1 Hello again. It's an art collection that until now has been hidden away from the public eye. It's an astounding private collection that contains a virtual roll call of some of NZ's best artists, and next week it's going up for auction. We've been behind the scenes, and here's a look ahead at our story. JAUNTY MUSIC Through the gate and behind the doors... So it was the sort of thing that you'd heard whispers about. ...of this Wellington house is something that many have heard about but never seen. This is an absolute treasure trove. This is a moment of NZ art historical significance that I'm not aware of occurring before and perhaps won't ever occur again. This is more than an art collection It's a couple's 50-year love affair. So, we've got Country Service Station. Oh, look, I think we're going to have a massive amount of interest, you know, not just from NZ but from collectors all around the world. Collectors are smart and they will recognise, just as I do, that this is an opportunity that may not come along again. This is a moment in history. OK, John Weeks. And Sunday's there when it goes on sale for the first time. JAUNTY MUSIC Done. So, what`? What's the insurance on these? Uh, the total insurance just for the artwork comes in about 5 million, so I'm not driving. LILTING PIANO MUSIC MUSIC SLOWS MUSIC ENDS So we'll bring you that story next week. Well, that's our show for tonight. Do join us on Facebook and Twitter ` SundayTVNZ.