Results
The project helped the community to find their own voice, access funding, and organise around a sustainable livelihood project that has given new life to the community.
The FREE project aims to improve living conditions for persons affected by leprosy through increasing access to government entitlements and services.
Over 15 years, TLM Bangladesh have established a network of 700 Self-Help Groups, which have now become autonomous Disabled Peoples' Organisations.
An overview of our self-care work
Our team runs a mobile prosthetics unit that travels around the country providing medical care to people who have lost their limbs, either through leprosy, or as a result of landmines that litter the country.
Our mobile clinics take medical care to where the need is, travelling around districts where there is a need for leprosy support, but no local provision. Providing a combination of medical expertise and pastoral care, they are a vital part of TLM’s mission.
Our mobile clinics in India take medical care to where it is needed most, particularly to people who would struggle to reach a hospital.
Dr Helen Roberts is an Ophthalmologist with The Leprosy Mission Trust India. Her opinion is that, across the leprosy sector, we are failing too many patients with inadequate eye care.
There is no one working in leprosy today who would argue that there is not a tight and painful link between a leprosy diagnosis and mental health challenges.
An overview of our research in Bangladesh
An overview of our research in India
An overview of our research work in Nepal
A look at the ENLIST consortium, an international effort to find new and better ways to treat ENL
Our researchers in Bangladesh are working on a new field-friendly diagnostic tool that could dramatically reduce transmission of the disease within communities and prevent leprosy-related disabilities.
A look at TLM Nepal's work to solve some of the major leprosy ulcer issues
A look at the latest mental health research that is being conducted by our team in Nigeria