| We would like to inform all our clients and families that our Proprietor, Christopher Wickenden is to take up a 12 month charitable post with the Leprosy Mission International from February 2008. Christopher will be working in Bangladesh in an accounting and financial role.
The Leprosy Mission (TLM) International is a leading non-denominational Christian organization, with over 130 years experience in leprosy work.
Leprosy is caused by Mycobacterium and affects the skin of the fingers and toes, resulting in tissue and cartilage loss, capable of causing disability and even blindness. Leprosy can be effectively treated and cured with Multidrug Therapy.
Every year between 200,000 and 400,000 new cases of leprosy are detected, worldwide, many of these in Bangladesh, where leprosy is a major public health problem. TLM is working alongside the Bangladeshi government and other NGOs to deliver a combination of compassion and action to identify and assist people to a cure and treat physical impairments through reconstructive surgery. TLM also invests in education, vocational training, counselling and socio-economic rehabilitation.
We are very proud of Christopher’s personal commitment to TLM and wish him every success in his work. We would also like to extend our best wishes to all TLM staff worldwide and recognise their work to prevent disability whilst offering support and restoring dignity, an ethos very close to our own hearts.
We would ask anyone able to contribute to the work of TLM to ask our staff for details.
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Chris

The Leprosy Mission Compound in Dhaka where I'm staying

Street market – Dhaka

Dhaka rooftop view

Full moon in Dhaka

Colin the rickshaw driver

Staff and children at the local pool

TLM Bangladesh Senior staff and families

The Armenian Church in Old Dhaka City

Village housing in the North West of the Country

Kolpona and 2 of her children

Kolpona’s home in Khettlal

A Typical Bangladesh rural landscape

Sofia a TLM staff member showing some of the
range of self-help products available to people
affected by leprosy

A scene from the play

Actors & musicians preparing to start the play

The happy couple!

A scene from the play

The audience

An accounting course at Nilphamari

Sunset at Nilphamari

Road travel in Bangladesh is not always very safe

“Lisa” a young patient at the Leprosy Hospital
in Nilphamari

Chris singing in a concert in Dhaka

A proud Rickshaw Puller

The river Buriganga in Dhaka
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