Month: January 2018

The Leprosy Mission Trust India (TLMTI) is in the process of identifying newer locations for community engagement (community engagement is any process that involves the community in problem-solving or decision-making, and empowers them to make more informed decisions). It identified Loni, a town in Ghaziabad district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, as a place to engage communities and to develop community-level capacity.

Dr Mary Verghese, formerly Deputy Director – Programmes, and later Director – Operations of The Leprosy Mission Trust India was inducted as the sixth Executive Director of the organisation, in an event organised at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, on March 21.

The Rotary Club of Kolkata organised their Annual Endowment Awards Ceremony, on April 19. TLMTI’s Snehalaya in Bankura was awarded the Rotarian Santanu Chatterjee Memorial Award for their work in providing residential care to elderly leprosy patients who have been rejected by their families because of the stigma attached to the disease, in their Snehalaya (Mercy Home).

The Leprosy Mission Trust India’s (TLMTI) Women’s Empowerment through Education, Advocacy, Livelihoods Training and Health (WEALTH) project organised a two-day workshop on adult literacy teaching methodology for its staff and staff of TLMTI’s S, in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, from April 26 to 27. Mr O.P. Chaurasia and Mr Sudhakar Mansingh from Literacy House, an institution that promotes adult literacy through training and capacity building, based in Lucknow, conducted the workshop as the resource persons. Thirteen project staff and 46 volunteers took part in the workshop.

The Leprosy Mission Trust India’s Barabanki Hospital (in Uttar Pradesh) organised a four-day free diabetes and hypertension detection camp, in Barabanki, from April 25 to 28.