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Your Gifts at Work: January-March 2023

Your Gifts at Work: January-March 2023

In 2023, our partner, Lalgadh Leprosy Hospital in Nepal, is finally reporting inpatient and outpatient numbers that are near their “normal,” pre-COVID numbers! Thanks to your gifts, we sent a medical supply shipment to Lalgadh in February.

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Your Gifts at Work: July-September 2022

Your Gifts at Work: July-September 2022

Our partners at Anandaban Hospital celebrated an inauguration ceremony for their new Trauma Center in September. Several ALM staff attended, including our Asia regional director, Dr. Sunil Anand, who spoke during the opening ceremony. The guest of honor was Nepal’s Minister of Health and Population.

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Your Gifts at Work: April-June 2022

Your Gifts at Work: April-June 2022

This quarter, American Leprosy Missions joined dozens of governments, NGOs, companies, and philanthropists in signing the Kigali Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs).

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Surviving the Storm: Updates from the Philippines

Surviving the Storm: Updates from the Philippines

On December 16, 2021, super-typhoon Rai struck the Philippines’ eastern islands, including Cebu: home to our partner, Cebu Skin Clinic. With your help, we sent $25,000 to Cebu Skin Clinic in January to repair the clinic’s facilities and to help people impacted by the typhoon, including those living with leprosy.

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New Steps Forward for Shakti and Anandaban Hospital

New Steps Forward for Shakti and Anandaban Hospital

When Shakti was 10 years old, she noticed the first symptoms of leprosy. “Both my legs got blisters, and they kept coming back. I had a big wound on my left foot. It became really hard to walk from home to school.” Even at home, it became harder to do her chores, and her parents didn’t let her leave the house.

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