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Many people were blind here and had deformities.
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A Horrifying Tale of those Afflicted with Leprosy...
Leprosy victims in a government-run colony in Tamil Nadu, India. Here, they have been long forgotten and have abandoned any shred of hope. They have been lone orphans in the most desperate of poverty unimaginable to mankind. The only hope they have to stop this suffering is death, but then, they may wonder, what will come next? They have zero hope of any way to escape this fate, this path, this suffering, this curse they feel they have been under...since the dreadful day they learned that they had leprosy. Here is a story that can no longer be left untold because in this distant place on the other side of the world there are real, thinking and breathing human beings, victims of leprosy, that have suffered a life that words can not even describe, terrifying and unspeakable...
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Since I (Kathy) have been spending about half of my life in India for more than five years now, I have seen much suffering, many things that have been forever imprinted on my heart and my whole being. But nothing had prepared me for what I was about to see this time during my eighth stay in India, helping to reach leprosy colonies in Tamil Nadu.
What I saw that day at this government-run leprosy colony seared the depths of my soul. This colony had the most shocking and horrifying poverty conditions I have ever witnessed. It was like experiencing a little bit of a living hell on earth. People with unimaginable disfigurements, hunger, insanity, those who were lame and blind, and others that had been disabled in various ways by the disease of leprosy, with absolutely no hope in this world; they all lived here.
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Sitting outside of his dark, damp, tiny room..
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The only sparse income these disabled people were getting was from the government and it added up to only 12 rupees, or 25 cents per month! The government has stopped providing medicine and bandages for their sores, and many of the people had badly infected ulcers with flies tormenting them, buzzing around and crawling on their infected wounds.
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Flies tormented the people with open sores.
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The damp and dungeonlike rooms that they had to live in were very small, about 8 x 10 feet. For some of the rooms, whole families or three single people had to crowd into them to sleep. All they have is a thin straw mat inside, with no pillow to rest their heads upon.
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The Christian Counter
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