India

Thank you for Saving Soles in Indian Leprosy Hospitals during the Coronavirus pandemic!

Thank you for your prayers and support for people affected by leprosy during this difficult time.

Without your prayer support, people affected by leprosy may not experience God’s love through the care they receive. Your amazing Christian heart is essential to God’s healing minist...

World Disability Day: A Better World For All

By Janice Caza, The Leprosy Mission Australia International Programs Officer

One billion people, or 15% of the world’s population, experience some form of disability. Persons with disabilities, on average as a group, are more likely to experience adverse socioeconomic outcomes th...

Chandramma’s a Leprosy Champion — thanks to people like you!

Chandramma never went to school. But today she stands tall with her fellow Civil Society Organisation (CSO) members, inspiring them and actively enabling them to access their rights and entitlements as people affected by leprosy and disability.

Thirty-two year old Chandramma is f...

Admin
Dec 16, 2019
India

No Back To School for Kamali – yet…

Kamali is a young woman in India. At 15, she couldn’t finish her schooling because she had leprosy.

At that time she had an ulcer on her leg which meant that she had difficulty walking so she couldn’t get to school. Her classmates and others in the community also began to either ...

Together, we are Overturning the Stigma of Leprosy in India!

Neelam is a shy girl living in a remote village in India, not far from a Leprosy Mission hospital. Her brother Mohan told us her story…

Their dad passed away. Mohan (who is in his early twenties) looks after his mother and five siblings, as well as a young family of his own.

He t...

Admin
Oct 17, 2019
India

Keep praying for Mobiles for Mobility!

Jubida is part of a leprosy community in India that relies on regular visits from a Leprosy Mission mobile clinic. “Every week I wait for the clinic to come,” Jubida told us.

Jubida is 60 years old and now lives in a shack by the roadside alone. Her husband died of leprosy compli...