Leprosy Outreach

Leprosy Outreach

With less than 1 case per 10,000 people globally, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared leprosy ‘eliminated’ as a public health problem in the year 2000. This devastating disease continues to ravage villages in several countries
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RCN 1152002

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Our goal is to eradicate leprosy from Nigeria. This long-term vision can only be realized by empowering villagers to acknowledge and fight the disease themselves.

Everything we do is aimed at helping people improve their own lives. By funding a roof, for example, we help create much more than a simple shelter from the rain. A locally-built roof provides local jobs—and puts locally grown food on the table.

About the charity

Leprosy Outreach

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RCN 1152002
Growing up in Nigeria, Margaret Eniola saw the ravages of leprosy first hand. As a girl, she passed by leprosy sufferers on her way to school, as they stood along the side of the highway, begging for money and help. As a lone girl staring into the face of the entrenched indifference of an ineffective system, there was little she could do. She tried anyway: sharing her pocket money and making a weekly Saturday afternoon visit to take snacks and treats to sufferers in a local home for the disabled. Even as she grew up, left Nigeria for the UK, and launched herself into a successful career as a social worker, the leprosy sufferers of her childhood were never far from her mind. Which is why, in 2012, she decided to quit her job and found Leprosy Outreach, a very small charity with a grand ambition: to eliminate leprosy in Nigeria. please donate to this worthy cause

Donation summary

Total raised
£20.00
+ £5.00 Gift Aid
Online donations
£20.00
Offline donations
£0.00
Direct donations
£20.00
Donations via fundraisers
£0.00

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