This site has a small article with a picture of one of Anandaban’s patients and scholarship recipients, Sita. I’ve ridden on the bus with her in Nepal. J
http://www.inspiremagazine.org.uk/news.aspx?action=view&id=4138
The Leprosy Mission through Anandaban currently provides educational funds or scholarships to around 400 kids across Nepal affected by leprosy so that they can attend a school or receive vocational training. It makes a difference. As leprosy is linked with desperate poverty, it can change the outlook of life for generations that were otherwise desolate.
I love these verses (Isaiah 61:1-4):
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek;he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the vengeance of our God, to comfort all that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, THE DESOLATIONS OF MANY GENERATIONS…
It is God’s business to build up the desolate – the destroyed and destitute – that He be glorified. We are His Body. It is what we together do.
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