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Posted on 08/05/2009 by
Congratulations on becoming President of ILEP! In fact you are following in the footsteps of the late Marcel Farine in more than one way.
Categories: Members, News and Notes
Posted on 06/05/2009 by
Bernard K. Punikai’a, human rights advocate, musician, composer, Vice-President of the Coalition for Specialized Housing, recipient of one of the first Wellesley Bailey Awards, and IDEA’s President for International Advocacy from 1997-2007, passed away in Honolulu on February 25, 2009.
Categories: News and Notes
Posted on 28/04/2009 by
Nazma Kabir joined LEPRA Health in Action on 6th April 2009 as their Programmes Director and is based in Colchester, Essex, UK. She gained her PhD in Medical Nutrition from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.
Categories: Members
Posted on 27/04/2009 by
On 1st April 2009 Jan van Berkel succeeded Kommer Braber as the new Director of Netherlands Leprosy Relief.
Categories: Members
Posted on 15/04/2009 by
In the autumn of 2009 Father Damien is to be canonised for his life devoted to people affected by leprosy in Hawaii. In The Legend of St Julian the Hospitaller Gustave Flaubert narrates his fictionalised version of this legend and St Julian’s redemption through caring for someone with leprosy.
Categories: Book reviews