Help find and cure people of leprosy
A simple child-like game is being used as a vital tool in community outreach to teach people about leprosy.
Snakes and Ladders might be familiar to you. It's a game based on chance, a roll of the dice shows how many steps you take along the board, aiming to get from 0 to 100..but there's a catch! If you land on a ladder you advance to the top of it! But if you land on the head of a snake you slide down. A fun game warning it's players of risks and potential help in the world.
Rebecca witnessed this in a village a few hours drive from a Leprosy Mission Hospital in India. The game was rolled out and a crowd gathered. While they were there members of the community outreach team were able to speak to people one-to-one, asking if there were any signs of leprosy in the community, and arranging health care and help for those who needed it. They were able to finish the session with sharing the facts about leprosy. It is curable. It is not a curse. There is help available.
Sessions like this make such a difference. Every two minutes someone somewhere in the world hears the words 'you have leprosy' - that's more than 200,000 people every year. And many of these are children. Leprosy robs them of their childhood, their education and their future prospects. It shouldn't be left to chance that a child might contract a disease for which there is a cure!
£24 is the cost to find and cure someone of leprosy. If you can please give today and help be a part of the generation that will end leprosy for good.
