Thank you for giving Anju a bright future

Anju lives in the beautiful tea gardens of Bangladesh where her dad works as a tea picker. She’s a bright, bubbly five-year-old who attends the little school for children who live on the plantation. She loves running fast, drawing flowers and playing clapping games with friends. She wants to be a doctor when she grows up because doctors help people.

One brutally hot morning, her mother took her to a special ‘one day only’ skin clinic. It was noisy and busy and Anju hid behind her mother’s legs. A doctor carefully examined the discoloured patches on her arms and diagnosed leprosy.

90 people attended the clinic that day and six people were diagnosed with leprosy: four adults and two children. Thanks to your support, all of them were given a combination of three antibiotics called Multi-Drug Therapy. Within 72 hours of starting the drugs they will no longer be able to pass on the disease to their friends and family.

Thankfully, because of the generosity of supporters like you, Anju’s symptoms were spotted quickly and there will be no long-term damage. Now, she needs your support to make a full recovery and to find and cure others like her. Will you help stop the transmission of leprosy today?

Anju’s mother, Sadona, shudders when she thinks about the damage leprosy might have done. “If we had missed the skin camp, the disease wouldn’t have been diagnosed and she wouldn’t be able to get better.” Sadona realises that If Anju had become disabled by leprosy, she would have struggled to marry or work when she was older.

“All I want for Anju’s future is for her to be healthy and happy. The Leprosy Mission being in the tea gardens is a very good thing.”

Buying a Gift for Life today, will not only find and cure more cases of leprosy, it might also make the dreams of young girls, like Anju, come true.

Pop-up Clinic

Will you help us find and diagnose more people with leprosy? This gift pays for a mobile skin clinic to discover and cure more cases of the disease.

£111 70128

For more Gifts for Life see p34-35 & 66

School Screening

In the tea gardens of Bangladesh many children are affected by leprosy. A school screening day means that they can be found and cured before the disease causes long-term damage.

£14 70127

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