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Posted on 23/08/2011 by
LEPRA Health in Action recently appointed Madhavi Sakuru as a Programme Officer.
Categories: Members
Posted on 15/07/2011 by
The 2011 Wellesley Bailey Award winners attended a presentation dinner at the International Assembly of ILEP Member The Leprosy Mission International in Chiang Mai, Thailand, at the end of May 2011. David Parry, Chair of The Leprosy Mission International told the guests that Wellesley Bailey Awards are given to people who have faced significant challenges in their lives from the consequences of leprosy, and have made significant contributions to their community and society.
Posted on 06/06/2011 by
DAHW is helping people in Nigeria through community-based rehabilitation projects.
Posted on 23/05/2011 by
Daniela is familiar with prejudice. When she decided to take on the role of DAHW Representative in Senegal, she was inundated with countless “well-intended” tips! For many that Islamized country was not the place for a woman with a child. However, it was more of an incentive for this fighting-spirited woman. “I myself have experienced others not trusting me with certain tasks. Thus I am very well placed to comprehend what marginalisation means for persons affected by leprosy”. However, the marginalisation of these people in Senegal was far worse than she had feared: “For Senegalese who are not affected by leprosy, these villages simply do not exist – and therefore their inhabitants neither.”
Posted on 19/05/2011 by
“I feel like someone with leprosy” goes the saying of people who feel they are being marginalised. As unhappy as this comparison is, unfortunately – even today in our seemingly enlightened world – persons affected by leprosy are still marginalised and even rejected by their own families. The German Leprosy and Tuberculosis Relief Association (DAHW) gives those affected the opportunity to build a new existence – an existence among those very persons who once banished them.