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Posted on 01/07/2011 by
The death took place recently of Dr Esther Mary Davis OBE, who was loved and respected for her medical work, both in Northern Ireland and Nigeria where she spent a major part of her life.
Categories: News and Notes, Nigeria
Posted on 29/06/2011 by
Dignity Regained: Cambodia, is a collection of personal narratives of persons affected by leprosy that has been published this year in both Khmer and English.
Categories: Africa, Asia, Cambodia, China, Europe, Ghana, India, Middle East, Myanmar, News and Notes
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.