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The Leprosy Mission Australia (TLMA) is a Christian medical charity dedicated to eradicating leprosy, and supporting those affected by the disease. An independent Australian charity, it is an active member of Leprosy Mission International (LMI) a global federation working in 28 countries. [ 1 ]
Wellesley C. Bailey (1846-1937) was the founder of the international charity The Leprosy Mission. [1] In India, in the 1860s, he witnessed the severe consequences of the disease and vowed to make caring for those struggling with leprosy his life's work. [2]
John Hargrave was born in 1931 in Perth, Western Australia. [11] He had one sibling, Barbara Kathleen Hargrave, who was born in 1928 and died after 2017 in Tasmania. John's father, Norman Hargrave, was born in Yorkshire, England and died in Perth, Western Australia in 1938, at the age of 41.
Countries where the Leprosy Mission is active as of 2011. The Leprosy Mission is an international and inter-denominational Christian NGO, the largest and oldest organisation working in the fight against leprosy. Founded as the Mission to Lepers, [1] it has the goal of zero leprosy transmission by 2035.
With the coming of more immigrants from Asia, cases of leprosy began to appear around the Hawaiian islands in the late 19th century.As it spreads, a colony for the isolation and care of lepers was established on the isolated Kalaupapa peninsula on the northern side of the island of Molokai.
The Leprosy Notes of 1928 and 1929 as well as all Leprosy Review issues from 1930 to 2001 are freely available online thanks to the Full Text Leprosy Project, an initiative of the Lauro de Souza Lima Institute of Secretary of Health of São Paulo, in cooperation with the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information and The ...
Culion leper colony in Culion old town in Palawan, Philippines used to shelter one of the largest population of lepers in Asia, numbering between 3,500-4,000. [12] [13] Taddiport in North Devon, England, formerly a medieval leper colony Abandoned nun's quarters at the leper colony on Chacachacare Island in Trinidad and Tobago
Graham Staines was born in the Sunshine Coast suburb of Palmwoods in the Australian state of Queensland.He visited India for the first time in 1965 by joining the Evangelical Missionary Society of Mayurbhanj (EMSM), and work in the remote tribal area of Odisha state, which had a long history of active Christian missionary style work.