MAKING HIS MARK

PLAYING in the sunlight with his friends was a favourite childhood pastime. Like any other pre-schooler, he could play outside for hours without a care in the world.

But when he was five years old, just weeks before he’d been set to start going to school, a “small white dot” appeared on the back of his neck.

The small dot grew and grew.

“White liver”, the people around Chad Esau started calling it. That was when the sunshine that had brought him so much joy as a youngster became his biggest foe.

Chad was diagnosed with vitiligo, a condition in which the skin loses its pigment,