Cure Bishal of Leprosy!

$655 of $5,184 goal

Given by 17 generous donors in 7 weeks

Bishal is suffering from leprosy, a devastating but curable disease. With your help we can cure him completely and permanently!

Auckland

This is Bishal. He’s from Nepal and just six years old – and he has leprosy, a devastating skin and nerve disease. Bishal’s parents first realised something was wrong when a painful rash broke out all over his body. A doctor diagnosed leprosy, so he and his mother had to travel for a day and a half by bus over windy, potholed, single-lane roads to reach a specialised hospital run by The Leprosy Mission near Kathmandu. When he arrived, he was in so much pain that the nurses at the hospital weren’t even able to touch him. I met Bishal this summer when I visited The Leprosy Mission’s Kathmandu hospital and was really touched by his story.

Thanks to the treatment The Leprosy Mission provides, Bishal is now on the road to recovery. But there are dozens more children with leprosy in Nepal. Leprosy is curable, it just takes a course of antibiotics. On average, it only costs $432 to completely cure someone of leprosy forever. Let’s raise The Leprosy Mission the money to cure Bishal, and a dozen more Nepali children suffering from leprosy like him!

Callum Hammond's involvement (page creator)

This January, I travelled to Nepal with The Leprosy Mission, and met Bishal and other children affected by leprosy at The Leprosy Mission’s hospital near Kathmandu. I was shocked to see that such a devastating disease as leprosy still exists in the 21st Century, especially since it’s so simple to cure if the funds are available. Since coming back to New Zealand, I’ve been raising money to cure Bishal and people like him affected by leprosy.