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Photo Journal: Life in the Colonies

Rising Star director, Amy Antonelli, encases the hand of a leprosy patient in her own hands. 
The gift of touch reaffirms the worth of each person.


"We can do no great things; only small things with great love." - Mother Theresa


Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. -Mother Teresa


Mario, blind and crippled by Leprosy, spent his days sitting on this cot in one of the remote colonies. His only sustenance was a large bag of rice and beans delivered monthly by workers from Rising Star Outreach.


Saroja developed Leprosy at the age of sixteen. Now severely disfigured by the disease, she lives in a colony far outside of town and finds joy in tending her tiny garden.
Nunjaka had a daughter secretly married outside of the colonies. If the daughter's new family learned that she came from a leprosy colony, her life would be in danger. Her mother, therefore, has been left to suffer her fate alone.
 

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