Meet the people who want to say thank you
This picture shows Sumitra, a beautiful girl who was born in a leprosy colony to parents who both had the disease. She herself does not have leprosy. We trained her as a nurse and she’s now working for us at Sewa Kendra.
Sumitra has married a man who has nothing to do with leprosy... amazing, in a country where the stigma of leprosy ruins lives.
Her mother was one of 12 kids so poor they rarely had enough to eat. Her spinster aunt had been incarcerated in a leprosy colony, where she noticed that children of leprosy affected people got free food and education - so Sumitra’s mother was sent to live there to relieve the impoverished situation at home.
Her mother did catch leprosy - but she also fell in love, married and produced this gorgeous daughter. Sumitra is now happily married and has healthy children of her own.
“Thank you for my future”
Sumitra working alongside other nurses at the clinic
at the Sewa Kendra Leprosy Hospital, Kathmandu
