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Your support can make a world of difference to people affected by leprosy.
Your gift today will be multiplied to set people like Rima free
Rima was just seven when she caught leprosy. Today she is suffering severe life-affecting disabilities in a city paralysed by Covid-19. Rima has been locked down by leprosy.
Your gift today could:
- help cure people early in their leprosy, to avoid lifelong disability, losing fingers and toes.
- help provide medical aids like crutches and protective sandals, so someone like Rima can walk into this new year with protected feet and head held high.
- help restore lives through self-help group loans - giving people like RIma the key to unlock an independent livelihood.
Your gift is multiplied through self-help groups as loans like Rima's are repaid and lent out again and again - impacting lives for generations to come.
Rima has lost fingers, toes and feeling. She needs crutches and her flesh is often eaten away by deep ulcers. Her heart and self-confidence are broken.
To feel safer, Rima stays away from other people.
"They say God is punishing you by giving you leprosy. Most days I don't leave the house."
With your help, there can be hope. You can help set Rima free, by giving her the chance to join one of your self-help groups in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Self-help groups are places where those affected by leprosy and disability can come together and support each other. Your support today can help fund the Bangladesh project that establishes self-help groups in communities like Rima's.
Your donation will help form a pool of funds that self-help groups can borrow for micro-enterprises like sewing or a tea-shop.
Rima desperately wants to join a self-help group. The micro-enterprise system you can help set up offers real hope for her and her child.
Today, will you reach out to help those that others walk past and actively avoid?