Stories from the mission

By the age of 13, Shirina Akter Rupa had already gone through much more suffering than

Juma had a very sad childhood. He lived in a village called Nicanda in Mozambique. She was 8 years old,

Avdes, now 18, from northern India, says of her life: "I was in grade 7 when

Kasinat Arayal has been working at the leprosy hospital in Ananda, Nepal for 22 years. He says he was about 7 years old,