REHABILITATION
Africa Care Watch objectives is to help to support hospitals, clinics, and outpatient programs that allow leprosy patients to be healthy, productive people again. This will further address the issue by educating villagers on the cause and prevention of Leprosy through proper hygiene, good nutrition, and proper sanitation.
Patients who are cured by efficient treatments, are able to leave the hospital, but are outcasts in the community and unable to find work because of the social stigma attached to the disease.
Africa Care Watch project will also boost their morale and it will give them a sense of confidence that they can still do something to make them productive and improve the status of their life.
As with the chicken coop project , another livelihood project The Dominican Sisters oversee are the pig raising projects. Outreach Asia has funded two pig projects which support over 40 leprosy families. The latest project was completed in 2004 and it consists of 40 new pigs, a building, canal and initial feed.
Children have parents or close relatives who have "Positive Leprosy" (The patient can leave the hospital, but has not been completely cured and must still take medication) live on their own, because their parents can't no longer provide for them. Only your help and donations will sustain the needs of those families and make a difference in their daily lives. Therefore, those children will have strong, healthy immune systems and have a good chance of not contracting the Leprosy disease from their relatives and have chance to go to school like any other children in the world.
In Africa, Leprosy is a fairly common occurance. Those afflicted with Leprosy are shunned from the joys of daily social life. It caused strange deformations and lesions that were a result of bacterial infections which affected the skin and nervous system. Leprosy is a communicable disease that can be easily spread and has an incubation period as long as 3 years. Because of fear of the unknown, and the physical deformations that were caused by untreated Leprosy that led to skin infections of the lesions, people where ostracized because of their physical appearance.
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