A small association that refuses to hand people back to the street
We are a registered non-profit working with leprosy-affected individuals and their families. Our work runs from the first suspicious patch of skin to the day a cured patient earns a living again — because stopping anywhere in between leaves the job undone.
We are deliberately small and deliberately close to the ground. Our field workers know the colonies by name. When a case is found, someone from our team goes there, sits down, and stays with that family through the full course of treatment.
We publish our accounts, our registrations and our annual reports in full. You can read all of them here before deciding whether to trust us with anything.
Four things we will not compromise on
Dignity first
We do not photograph wounds for sympathy or use a person as an appeal. Every story on this site is published with consent and with the person named as they wished.
Reach the unreached
The case that matters most is the one nobody has found. We spend our field budget where no clinic goes.
Finish the treatment
A patient who stops at month four is a relapse waiting to happen. We follow every course to completion, in person.
Show the books
Registrations, audits and annual reports are on this website. If a donor asks a question, the answer is a document, not a reassurance.
The road so far
Founded
A single dressing table in a borrowed room, serving eleven patients nobody else would see.
First detection camp
We stopped waiting for patients to come to us and started walking into the colonies ourselves.
Reconstructive surgery fund
Partnership with a district hospital brings claw-hand and foot-drop correction within reach for our patients.
Children's education programme
School fees, uniforms and books for the children of leprosy-affected families.
Livelihood units
Tailoring and small-shop grants turn cured patients into earners.
Today
Detection, treatment, surgery, schooling and livelihood — under one association, for one community.
Come and see for yourself
Donors, doctors, students and journalists are welcome at our centre without notice. If what is written here is true, a visit will show it faster than any report.