Blog & Press

In August, several of our staff from the U.S. and U.K. visited ALM partners and projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ghana. It was a whirlwind experience, full of field trips, site visits and conversations…

As part of the psychological and spiritual training we provide for pastors and church leaders in DR Congo, our Christian partner hospital held a trauma healing session this spring.

We’ve reached the end of our fiscal year, so we can report some exciting numbers from a year of advocacy and WASH + NTDs education across India and Nepal!

This year the U.S. marks 20 years of PEPFAR: the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. American Leprosy Missions (ALM) believes this program lights a path forward for combatting another global health threat: neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).

So often, neglected tropical diseases like leprosy destroy lives because critical health information remains out of reach. That’s why, with your generous support, we make training and community education a central part of our programs. 

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.

Last year, your generous gifts helped us launch four new projects in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire with Christian partner organizations and hospitals.

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.