The ADT that worked towards supporting communities affected by leprosy with livelihood support, has now translated their action into a more concentrated effort to fight the spread and stigma attached to the disease. In the latter half of the year 2013, the Alliance Development Trust partnered with The Leprosy Mission to launch a systematic leprosy awareness education program that is anticipated will create awareness around the country on the disease, it’s spread, treatment, commonly held misconceptions etc.

1. Anti-Leprosy Campaign
Sri Lanka
2014-15

3. Moved with compassion, Jesus reached
out and touched him......
Mark 1:41

4. T CAUSE
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5. Amar, India
be
I have leprosy
I am rejected

6. Pemba, Nepal
be
I have leprosy
I am forgotten

7. Rebati, Nepal
be
I have leprosy
y husband left me
m

8. Charan, India
be
I have leprosy
can’t get married
I

9. Nikorn, Thailand
be
I have leprosy
I can’t get a job

10. Elsa, Mozambique
be
nts had leprosy
my pare
can’t go to school
I

11. Ju st
b e ca u s e
so m e o n e
has leprosy
they might
be thrown
out of their
ho m e

12. Their
sp o u se
might
de m and a
divorce

13. Their family
might reject
them

14. Their
business
might suffer

15. Their children
could lose
their
education

16. 1 person
every 2
minutes is
told he/she
has leprosy

17. Every 20
minutes a child
is diagnosed
with leprosy

18. rosy is completely
Lep
curable, but …

19. …it still disables

20. it still stigmatises
…

21. …some countries
(including Sri Lanka)
still have laws that
iscriminate against
d
people affected by
leprosy

22. Leprosy Mission is
T he
rking to bring healing
wo
nd justice to people
a
affected by leprosy

23. They helped
Elsa to get a
good education

24. They helped
Nikorn to make a
living

25. They helped Charan
ve independently
to li

26. They helped
ebati to be able
R
to face the future

27. They helped
Pemba’s family to
understand
leprosy, and now
she can live at
home

28. They helped
Amar to
overcome the
rejection he
faced

29. To take this message
To the Church of Sri Lanka
We at ADT would be partnering with
The Leprosy Mission

30. be
s
anka has 5 new case
Sri L
f leprosy per day,
o
it should concern you

31. We have over 2,000
new cases a year
and rising

32. und 45% of patients
Aro
are reported from the
Western Province

33. highest number of
The
cases are from the
Colombo district

34. Let’s Join hands in
putting an end to
Leprosy in Sri Lanka

35. Hallelujah (We are one)
by Steph Macleod
perfomed by exile band
taken from the album un|broken
available from www.inexile.net
used with permission