Once a person with leprosy receives medication, it only takes two weeks until that person is no longer contagious. But in India, when someone finds they have leprosy, their own family members disown them, consider them cursed and send them away from their homes.

As social outcasts, the unfortunate victims of this disease are often forced to forage for food in garbage or go hungry because they have limited resources and are banned from working publicly. 

Your gift will provide food, special shoes, housing and other needs for lepers who are denied the most basic of human rights due to the disease.

Shoes for a leprosy victim  ($15)
A disease of the skin and peripheral nerves that causes numbness and loss of sensation in the hands and fee, leprosy takes a tremendous toll on victims who are impacted greatly by an injury to the feet. Your gift provides a pair of specially designed sandals to protect these fragile feet.

Meal for members of a leper colony  ($350)
As often as funds permit, IGL offers a special meal to victims of leprosy. Due to their social status, imagine the joy that abounds when these mistreated people are blessed with a meal that they may never otherwise receive.

Housing for a leprosy victim and his/her family  ($3,500)
Since most leprosy victims are cast out from their families, they are left homeless and alone, unable to settle down elsewhere due to the perception of their disease. Your gift gives them a home of their own.