Projects You Can Support

India

Cure One before it's too late!

Right now, in India, where most of the world’s leprosy cases are found, far too many children are at risk. Their childhoods, their bodies, their futures … all threatened by this cruel disease. With your Cure One gift today, you can provide 12 months of complete care for one child like Mahesh, and restore what leprosy has stolen.

TLC Indonesia

TLC Indonesia

Leprosy is curable. No child or adult should be excluded from family, community, school or workplace due to the disease. Together, we can stop leprosy, leprosy disability and discrimination in Indonesia.

New Project Timor-Leste

E-LETRA (Ending Leprosy Transmission in Oecusse-Ambeno)

Working across the whole region of Oecusse, Timor-Leste, the project seeks to end leprosy transmission in the area. Oecusse has a population of approximately 80,000 people. However, they are all scattered across a large geographical area often in difficult to reach areas due to poor road conditions. Leprosy is endemic with high numbers of leprosy related disabilities due to limited health services.

Nepal TLC

TLC - Tertiary

Your regular gift today will support a young person like Anjali in Nepal who comes from a family where there is leprosy or disability. These families are among the poorest in the community, and offer suffer discrimination, stigmatisation and rejection. The Leprosy Mission aims to support 12 students to university success. 50% of these young people will be girls. In Nepal, young women may miss out on opportunities simply because they are not men. With your help we hope to change this.

TLC Timor-Leste

TLC Timor-Leste

Leprosy is curable. No child or adult should be excluded from family, community, school or workplace due to the disease. Your regular support helps change attitudes and fight discriminatory laws that exclude leprosy-affected people from society.

Nepal

Jhapa Leprosy Reduction

The rate of child leprosy in Jhapa are higher than the national average. Child leprosy cases is an indication of active leprosy transmission in a community. Working in 6 municipalities across Jhapa, Eastern Nepal, the project aims to reduce leprosy transmission rates in children to less than 10% of all leprosy cases.

Nepal

School Screening Blitz

Join the School Screening Blitz and multiply your impact 5 TIMES!

Where Needed Most

Where Needed Most

By making a general donation, you’ll be making a real difference — curing people of leprosy, preventing or assisting them with their disabilities, providing income-generating opportunities, educating their children, and restoring them to their families and communities.

Papua New Guinea TLC

Supporting the work of Natalie Smith in PNG

Support the ongoing work of Natalie Smith in Papua New Guinea by becoming a Total Loving Cure (TLC) partner.

New Project Indonesia

Comprehensive Zero Leprosy Project (Co-ZLP)

Located in Karawang District, West Java, the project works in both the rural and urban areas within the district to implement an effective leprosy control program and reduce fear and discrimination against the disease. This project implements both the Leprosy Friendly Village approach and the Urban Leprosy approach.

Indonesia

Leprosy Friendly Village Desaku

Villages are important places for people to have community and a sense of belonging. Unfortunately, due to misinformation and a lack of understanding, patients with leprosy are marginalised, feared and discriminated against, even by the health workers who are suppose to be treating them.

TLC

TLC Sole-Mates

Your kindness remains the only way to provide Protective Shoes and ongoing care, to those who are at risk of disability from leprosy. There are still so many others waiting for the protection you can give with a simple pair of $20 sandals… which they cannot afford to buy themselves. Become one of our wonderful TLC Sole-Mates today!

Nepal

No child should suffer leprosy

No child should suffer leprosy.Your urgent action now offers new life! Sometimes the suffering is just too much. What Satendra did to try to escape the suffering of leprosy is heartbreaking… Satendra was a boy. Just a boy.

TLC India

TLC India

Your regular gift of TLC will make a real difference. Together, we can stop leprosy, leprosy disability and discrimination in India.

TLC Where Needed Most

TLC - Total Leprosy Cure Regular Giving

Your generosity will do amazing things! Your regular support as a Total Loving Cure Partner means that each day those affected by leprosy will receive support such as a decent education, receive medical care they need, and their families are helped to earn an income that will mean they are able to care for their children.

TLC Nigeria

TLC Nigeria

No child or adult should be excluded from family, community, school or workplace due to the disease. Your regular support helps change attitudes and fight discriminatory laws that exclude leprosy-affected people from society.

Where Needed Most

Where Needed Most

By making a general donation, you’ll be making a real difference — curing people of leprosy, preventing or assisting them with their disabilities, providing income-generating opportunities, educating their children, and restoring them to their families and communities.

Nepal

Nepal Self Care Unit

Located on the grounds of Anandaban Hospital (a hospital specialising in leprosy) in Kathmandu, the Self Care Unit is the final stop for admitted patients before going home. Here in a home environment, they are provided with practical self-care education on how to prevent further injuries while doing daily activities.

India New Project

VTC Faizabad (Vocational Training Centre Faizabad)

The Faizabad Vocational Training Centre (VTC) provides free quality, co-ed technical education to people in Uttar Pradesh aged between 16-40 years, affected by leprosy, disability and those from underprivileged backgrounds.

Nepal

Nepal Education Program (SEED)

The SEED (Supporting Empowerment through Education Development) Program aims to support 100 students (from primary and secondary school) with scholarships to contribute to school fees, uniforms and supplies. Students are either directly affected or the dependents of people affected by leprosy or disability. The Education Program team also provides counselling sessions to parents and students in order to encourage girls to stay in school and receive an education.

TLC

TLC Children

Leprosy is curable. No child or adult should be excluded from family, community, school or workplace due to the disease.

Timor-Leste

Ends of the Earth

We have a new mission to find and stop leprosy in Oecusse, the remotest part of Timor-Leste. It’s so remote that this is the first full-scale mission to find the hidden cases of leprosy there. Will you help with your love and compassion? This mission to reach the ends of the earth has the support of the Australian Government with a 5:1 matching grant. This means your special gift today will be matched 5x.

India

Restore a child today!

Children like Mahesh. At just nine years old, he already knew the pain of leprosy. His childhood, his body, his future … all threatened by this cruel disease. You see, without treatment, children like Mahesh face a lifetime of disability and isolation. And because of the deep stigma surrounding leprosy, many suffer in silence. With your Cure One gift today, you can provide complete care for one child like Mahesh, and restore what leprosy has stolen.

Nepal New Project

SPROUTS

SPROUTS (Strengthening Pathways for Economic Resilience through Sustainable Opportunities to Communities) seeks to improve the resilience and holistic well-being of people affected by leprosy, lymphatic filariasis and other disabilities. The project works with local government health workers to reduce transmission of disease and with Self-Help Groups to improve livelihood opportunities for vulnerable persons. The project works in Western Nepal in the districts of Nawalparasi and Nawalpur.

TLC Education and Training

You can help children receive an education and pursue their dreams. Yes! I want to become a REGULAR GIVER and provide ongoing support towards the education of young people affected by leprosy.

Nepal

School Screening Blitz

Join the School Screening Blitz and multiply your impact 5 TIMES!

TLC Nepal

TLC Nepal

Your regular gift of TLC will make a real difference. Together, we can stop leprosy, leprosy disability and discrimination in Nepal.

New Project India

CID (Cocreating Inclusive Development)

Following the success of the Inclusive Empowerment project, CID expands their successful health service provision models to new locations. The project continues to work towards the inclusion of persons with disabilities through providing them with comprehensive rehabilitation services, assistive devices and working with villages to develop disability inclusive communities.

Timor-Leste TLC

TLC Timor-Leste - 5 to 1

Did you know you can use the 5:1 Grant for people threatened by leprosy in Timor-Leste year-round? Each month you will give 5 TIMES the amount of care that is needed most urgently!

Nigeria New Project

Enhance Care for Integrated Skin NTDs in Nigeria

Working in 12 communities in the 3 states of Zamfara, Benue and Nasawara, the project works towards the elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases as a public health problem, in particular leprosy, lymphatic filariasis and Buruli ulcers.

Indonesia

Urban Leprosy, Kotaku

The urban population, particularly around the capital city of Jakarta is rapidly expanding with rural migration, as people come to the city in search of work. With the high cost of living in cities, many people end up living in urban slums, where there is inadequate housing, poor sanitation, poor hygiene and crowded living environments. These conditions increase the risk of leprosy transmission.