The Leprosy Mission, (TLM) an international Christian development organisation, diagnoses, treats and offers specialist care, including reconstructive surgery, to people affected by leprosy. Its aim is to help transform and empower the lives of people affected by leprosy.

Leprosy is a disease of poverty and as well as providing healthcare, TLM offers rehabilitation, education, vocational training, small business loans, housing and fresh water supplies and sanitation to tens of thousands of people each year. TLM provides a springboard to restored health, self-sufficiency and renewed hope. Its services are provided regardless of religion or ethnicity, promoting equality and social justice.

Please pray for TLM's work in Myanmar:

Give thanks that, in Myanmar

• 500 plus people affected by leprosy or disability have been trained and started income generation activities
• 200 people have received physiotherapy and assistive devices
• 1,027 people benefited from improved water supplies
• 700 people from improved sanitation in Eastern Shan State
• Give thanks that patients visiting Mawlamyine Christian Leprosy Hospital, in Mon State, Myanmar, can now wait for their treatment in a bright and airy room with comfortable seats. Thanks to funding from

Jersey Overseas Aid Commission, the new, spacious waiting rooms are part of the new outpatients department.

• Please pray for those patients who arrive at this specialist referral centre, over 6,200 of whom will be affected by leprosy and others with other disabilities, TB/HIV/Malaria and general patients. Pray that they will have the courage to come forward.
• Pray for people affected by leprosy from Eastern Shan State in Myanmar, many of whom were driven from their homes simply because they had leprosy. Pray against the stigma which still exists for people affected by leprosy. 3,000 new cases of leprosy are diagnosed each year in Myanmar and some are shunned and rejected because of the diagnosis. Pray that through education this stigma will be reduced and eradicated.
• Give thanks for the amazing work being done to rehabilitate the leprosy-affected into new villages and for wonderful supporters who enable The Leprosy Mission to provide medical care, health training and education about leprosy. Schools are also being built in partnership with other agencies to increase educational achievement in children.
• Pray that the Disability Resource Centres and drop-in centres elsewhere in Myanmar will be able to continue to provide physical rehabilitation through physiotherapy to overcome disabilities, as well as counselling and emotional support.
• Give thanks that in over 100 rural communities, 1,500 families affected by leprosy have been helped, including about 150 leprosy patients who have undergone reconstructive surgery.