Gifts of Love Catalogue 2024

Your Gifts of Love

help students like Parvarti find love and acceptance despite leprosythank you!

“I would never wish leprosy on anybody, but especially as a girl.  It impacts your marriage prospects and how people look at you. When I first found out I had leprosy, I was scared. I knew about the stigma. When I first told my friends, they made fun of me and teased me.

After treatment through The Leprosy Mission, my friends saw me recover and were happy for me.

I am part of the sewing technology traineeship at The Leprosy Mission Vocational Training Centre (VTC). I am interested in

Vocational Training

Assist a young person affected by leprosy to train in a practical vocation that will empower them with financial independence.

| CODE: 11295 | $100

fashion design and would like to run my own business one day. My classmates are very loving and accepting. I am very close to my friends here.

I just got married to a man who accepts me as I am. As a woman in India, I am expected to cook for all my family and relatives. But when I wake up, I catch the bus and go to class!

After my training, I can earn some money to support my family and fulfil my own needs.”

Facts about Leprosy

Leprosy is found all over the world –sometimes even in Australia. It is most common in places of poverty.

Leprosy can attack and destroy the nerves in the body, especially in the hands, feet and face resulting in loss of feeling and/or function.

Stigma and discrimination exist in many countries. Fear of rejection by family and friends prevents people seeking diagnosis and treatment early on. This puts them at higher risk of nerve damage and irreversible disability.

The leprosy bacteria can attack the eyes and the eyelids causing paralysis. If patients cannot close their eyes, debris and insects can easily enter and cause damage, eventually leading to permanent blindness.

Thank you for your Gifts of Love! Your total help! $

You can use a 5:1 Grant from the Australian Government to transform life for someone hurt by leprosy. Applied to only selected Gifts of Love.

Children’s Scholarship

Schools often turn away children from leprosy affected families. The Leprosy Mission works hard to open school doors. Leprosy makes life in poverty difficult. Families cannot usually afford school materials. But your Gifts of Love help them afford a uniform, books and pens.

| CODE: 11289 | $120

Wherever you see this sticker

Supported by the Australian Government

Every 2 minutes a new case of Leprosy is diagnosed. You can cure one today!

Make a difference!

Protective Shoes

Leprosy can lead to a loss of feeling in the feet, and cause permanent damage. Your gift will provide shoes to protect vulnerable feet.

| CODE: 11286 | $15

I feel blessed to be able to make a big difference to someone’s life by the simple act of buying a pair of shoes. Thank you for providing me with this ability.” Kelly “

Counselling

People affected by leprosy often face discrimination and stigma. Counselling helps them to overcome their feelings of rejection. This is provided through the hospitals we support in India and projects in Nepal.

| CODE: 11573 | $20

Accessible Toilet

Piglet

Piglets grow very quickly and are easy to look after. For people affected by leprosy or disability with mobility issues, pig farming is a viable way to earn a living. One piglet can fertilise the veggie patch and be sold at market for a good price.

| CODE: 13793 | $75

Walking Aids

Support the load of those disabled by leprosy by providing a walking stick, cane or crutch. Your gift of safety and stability helps them back on their feet.

| CODE: 12622 | $50

Community Toilet Block

You can give the gift of dignity and relieve a basic human need for another person with a disability. Your gift of an accessible toilet provides a person with a disability a toilet, built for their specific needs, ensuring they can access a toilet near their home that is clean and safe.

| CODE: 13822 | $400

Many communities don’t have toilets. Poor sanitation leads to sickness and disease. In particular it can affect babies and young children. Your gift can provide many people with a healthier lifestyle. It can lead to increased school attendance and improved work opportunities. Your $800 5:1 Gift of Love now has a value of $4,800 meaning your healing help can reach further.

| CODE: 12842 | $800

Your care helps people like Amar care for themselves!

When Amar’s wife died after falling off a roof, Amar lost everything. Amar, from Nepal, had two young children, but he had no way to earn a living. Too poor and too impaired by leprosy – a disease he didn’t know he had, he made the heartbreaking choice to give them a chance at a better future in an orphanage. Amar has not seen his children in 11 years. The leprosy took an enormous toll on his body. He lost feeling in his hand due to nerve damage, and he burnt it while cooking. He bandaged it, but it didn’t heal; in addition, his hand began to claw. His feet became ulcerated, he lost some of his toes, and suffered a left drop foot. The leprosy ulcers started to smell — badly — and the brother whom Amar was living with said that he had to leave.

When his symptoms first started, Amar had gone to the health centre. At first, he was diagnosed with cancer and referred for specialist care. However, he could not afford to go and since he didn’t have money he decided not to return to the health centre. It was not until a few years later that he came

across a community health worker who gave him advice to get tested for leprosy. When he did so, it was positive and he was put on multidrug therapy (MDT). He was given further advice to go to Anandaban hospital to care for his ulcers. There, his wounds were treated properly. He was given the knowledge and resources to properly care for his hands and feet. His body began to heal.

The caring hearts of people like you provided Amar with everything he needed to care for himself. Your Gift of Love Cure Package transforms the life for a person affected by leprosy, like Amar. Your Gift of Love of a Self Care Pack gives somebody just like him the necessities for caring for their injuries. Daily self care is a must for people managing the effects of leprosy. Amar has now had reconstructive surgery on his foot, and no longer struggles to walk. He will soon be able to have surgery on his hands as well.

Now he is hopeful for the future — and it shows in his eyes when he talks about seeing his children again. When he is recovered, Amar wants to start a chicken farm, so he can take care of them as a family once again.

Self Care Package

A daily self-care routine is a must for people managing the effects of leprosy. You can provide a pack of necessities to cleanse and protect them each and every day.

| CODE: 12623 | $30

Cure Package

Transform the life of one person affected by leprosy. Your gift is a package of healing and hope. It provides diagnosis, treatment with medicine to cure plus medical care where needed. You will have cured one person, like Amar, affected by leprosy and helped them through their Multi-Drug Therapy.

| CODE: 12649 | $432 ®

Together we’re working towards a Leprosy-free world!

Supa, the social enterprise manager visiting Amar at Anandaban Hospital

Kiosk Business Start-Up

What a joy to enable a family affected by leprosy or disability to open a small kiosk, with all the supplies and training they need. The kiosk is suited for those with mobility limitations, affected by leprosy. Providing a social outlet that encourages greater community involvement.

| CODE: 12967 | $350

Student Accommodation & Food

Support young students by giving the gift of food and accommodation. Away from their families, and not yet earning income, your gifts are vital so they can graduate.

| CODE: 12290 | $335

Health & Hygiene Education for a School

Poor sanitation and hygiene lead to increased risk of health issues. Diseases like leprosy thrive in such conditions. Your gift educates school children about safe water, hygiene and sanitation practices to pass onto their families. Understanding hand washing with soap saves countless lives. Your $500 5:1 Gift of Love now has a value of $2,500 meaning your healing help can reach further.

| CODE: 12896 | $500

Buffalo

Your gift of a buffalo is a great asset for subsistence farmers. It can do the hard work of tilling the ground for crops and can provide transport as well as milk and cheese. That’s labour, food, transport and extra income for a family.

| CODE: 11296 | $250

Healthcare Worker Training

Whole communities can benefit from a health worker trained in leprosy detection and treatment. Your gift will provide the knowledge a healthcare worker needs to understand and help fight this complex disease. Your $200 5:1 Gift of Love now has a value of $1,200 meaning your healing help can reach further.

| CODE: 12841 | $200

Wheelchair

This ‘Gift of Love’ allows a person with a disability to be mobile, so they can go out to school or work and socialise. This independence and self-reliance is priceless!

| CODE: 11292 | $100

This is a good opportunity to give something to others. My own grandson is wheelchair bound so I know how important it is to be mobile.” Leonie “

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I want to help cure and care for someone with my Gifts of Love below...

When you give a Gift of Love through The Leprosy Mission Australia, you will receive a gift card for the item donated. You can keep it or pass on to someone else to show that you have given it on their behalf. The cards do not mention the price of your gift.

For Birthdays, Anniversaries, Christmas or any other special occasion, celebrate by giving your friends and family a life changing ‘Gift of Love’ on their behalf!

Choose and purchase your Gift of Love.

Block5:1 Gift of Love means your $800 now has a value of $4,800

$ 12897 H ealthcare Centre Renovation5:1 Gift of Love means your $1000 now has a value of $6000

You will receive a card as a keepsake for yourself or for the friend/family member you have purchased the gift on behalf of.

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Please send gift cards* I do not need gift cards

* A $10 international postage will be charged if you wish to send a Gift of Love card to overseas.

Your gift goes to support people affected by leprosy overseas.

Please note that Gifts of Love cards do not come with an envelope.

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Order online: shop.leprosymission.org.au

*Website only You also have the option to purchase a Gift of Love for someone in need as a recurring subscription, such as a monthly or quarterly basis!* This can be cancelled at anytime on your account.

When you shop online at our website, you have the option to send a gift e-card in an email or you can print your own card and give it to someone you love!

It’s really easy to order Gifts of Love...

Please contact me for a monthly Gift of Love Donation: (Phone/mobile number) ( )

Choose your Gifts of Love from the Catalogue. Place your order by completing the Order Form included. Detach and return the completed form to: The Leprosy Mission Australia, Reply Paid 93058 Geelong North VIC 3215

American Express Donations $2 or more are tax deductible

Or call: 1800 710 710 You will receive a lovely Gift Card to send to family and friends.

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–Your personal details will be stored on our secure database and will not be passed onto a third party. See www.leprosymission.org.au. If the area of need becomes funded, your gift will go where it’s needed most.

The Leprosy Mission Australia ABN 52 354 004 543 Privacy Statement

We will keep you informed about the impact of your support, other news of our work and other opportunities to help people affected by leprosy, which may be of interest to you.

If you do not wish to receive this information, please contact us on 1800 537 767.

When you buy a Gift of Love, you are making a tax-deductible donation to an actual TLMA project. The dollar value listed for each gift is an estimation of how much this part of the project costs. Your donation funds this part, along with other vital activities of that project. If we can’t use the money for the specific item you buy, it will go to an associated program. Countries that benefit from your Gift of Love are projects that you support in Timor Leste, Indonesia, India, Nigeria and Nepal.

Gifts of Love® is a registered trademark of The Leprosy Mission Australia and may not be used by any means or in any form whatsoever without written permission.

Empower others! Goat

One goat provides much needed milk and cheese for a family. With two or more goats and training in animal husbandry, a family can have a sustainable income.

| CODE: 11287 | $50

Prosthetic Limb

Transform the lives of those who have lost limbs by providing lifelike prosthetics. Give them the gift of increased agility and independence to help them walk again.

| CODE: 12624 | $150

Beekeeper Starter Kit

Cultivating bees produces honey for nutrition, which can also be sold for income. Bees are also vital for pollination of flowers, forests and crops. Help a person affected by leprosy or disability, and their wider community, benefit from bees by providing beehive essentials. What a sweet gift!

| CODE: 12970 | $60

As a keeper of native bees myself and a lover of all bees, I think this is a brilliant idea for a start up business gift. Hives can multiply year by year and supply both food and an income.” Loraine “

Leprosy Reaction Treatment

Around 1 in 3 leprosy patients experience a complication called “reaction”. In severe cases, it’s incredibly debilitating, requiring steroid treatments and hospital stays. Your gift helps provide treatment and food supplements.

| CODE: 12843 | $200

Farmer’s Tool Box

Your gift will help realise the dream of a trade for a person affected by leprosy. This gift includes all the tools they need to start working and earning, along with essential training.

| CODE: 12651 | $40

When only a small donation can be given, it is wonderful to know that it can help someone to grow produce to help themselves and perhaps others.”

Healthcare Centre Renovation

Healthcare clinics in Nigeria often run without basic facilities. No toilets, proper electrical wiring or secure roofing. Your gift gives clinics the means to operate, such as furniture, medical cabinets, kit for diagnosis and management of leprosy, and more. Your $1,000 5:1 Gift of Love now has a value of $6,000 meaning your healing help can reach further.

| CODE: 12897 | $1,000

Shirley “

You might ask, what use is $5 for a child like Shanti, threatened by leprosy?

The answer is: life-changing! Especially when your $5 gift is multiplied by a new 5:1 Government Grant!

When I was in Nepal a few weeks ago I saw the value of $5. That’s all it costs in Jhapa, Nepal to screen a child for leprosy – so the disease can then be cured early with MultiDrug Therapy (MDT), and lifelong disability prevented.

Buying gifts from The Leprosy Mission shop, shows you have a true heart for helping people with practical care.

With your support now, The Leprosy Mission aims to run a School Screening Blitz! in one of the poorest parts of Nepal for 50,718 and 1,391 teachers in 107 schools!

Those are big scary numbers. Until you see it costs just $5 to screen each child AND a new 5:1 Australian Government Grant increases your impact 5 TIMES!

Join the School Screening BLITZ now! Simply mail add a $5 Gift of Love for Contact Tracing onto your order. Or a $200 Gift of Love for School Screening.

School Screening

For just $5 per child, you go into a school and run what we call a ‘Skin Test Screening’. This name is used because in some communities, just the word ‘leprosy’ can subject children to teasing and rejection.

When I was in Nepal, I heard many heartbreaking stories, just like Shanti’s. She is in Year 7 now, but recalls with great pain what she suffered at school:

“When blisters started to develop on my face and body, I began feeling anxious around my friends. I no longer wanted to leave my house and I no longer saw my neighbours and classmates.”

You can imagine how much that must have hurt. Not just the fear of disease, but the rejection by friends.

That’s why your Gift of Love to be multiplied 5 TIMES by the 5:1 Government Grant, is vital.

After you have run the ‘Skin Test Screening’, any child with signs of leprosy can be referred privately to a Doctor – and kick-started on a 12-month course of MDT to completely cure the leprosy, before it can cause needless lifelong disability.

Educating school communities on leprosy helps find and treat cases early. Your gift is delivered through an awareness program to staff, parents and students. The whole community will learn about leprosy and the importance of treating children quickly to end transmission and before permanent disability can result. Your $200 5:1 Gift of Love now has a value of $1,200 meaning your healing help can reach further.

| CODE: 13883 | $200

Your kindness doesn’t run out after the $5 ‘blitz’ to check for skin disease and leprosy. You’ll see that when Shanti tells you what happens next, after she was prescribed the MDT that people like you distribute through The Leprosy Mission:

“Since taking medications, my blisters have reduced, and I’m no longer scared to see my friends. I attend school every day and I want to graduate.

The Leprosy Focal Person taught us how to care for our wounds and ulcers, and made sure we took our medications.

They told my sister and I that if we take a full 12-month course of MDT that we can be cured of leprosy.”

All this starts with love and kindness from you, and a gift of just $5 per child in our School Screening Blitz!

Your Gifts of Love are critical now to make full use of the 5:1 Australian Government Grant to reach the children and teachers still waiting.

Dr Greg Clarke CEO – The Leprosy Mission Australia

Rhitik is now leprosy free!

Rhitik is on the road to recovery

Do you remember Rhitik? We shared his story with you a little while ago. Around 4 years ago, Rhitik found an ulcer on his right big toe. It caused him a lot of pain and stopped him from doing a lot of things. His friends would ask why he couldn’t play with them, and he had to tell them he was injured. It’s been years now since he was able to join in with them, and it makes Rhitik upset that he is unable to play.

Leprosy had infected the bone in his foot. Rhitik travelled to The Leprosy Mission Anandaban Hospital where the doctors were able to confirm he had leprosy and advise on the infection in his foot. He had surgery to remove the infected bone, and given the crucial Multi-Drug Therapy (MDT) to cure the leprosy.

We’re excited to be able to share a new update with you. Rhitik has finished his MDT and is now leprosy free!

Early in the year, he faced some setbacks in his recovery, with the treatment not progressing as hoped. In March, he came back

to Anandaban for a follow-up surgery. Now he is healing well, and doesn’t need to be on any medication.

With contact tracing and early detection of leprosy, children like Rhitik can avoid irreversible disabilities. Your Gift of Love helps diagnose leprosy early and support their journey to becoming leprosy-free.

The next step for Rhitik is self-care. He has been taught to take care of his surgical sites while they recover. These necessary supplies to carry it out are provided thanks to people like you. Now he knows how to keep them clean and safe.

Rhitik is recovering safely and quickly. He had to miss a lot of school while in hospital but is now back at school playing soccer with friends. He will be able to finish Grade 5 in just a few months!

He is so excited to be back to school and play with his friends again!

Soap

Providing soap is essential for the skin care and prevention of infection for people affected by leprosy. Soap improves hygiene and helps reduce the incidence of preventable diseases in poor communities.

| CODE: 11574 | $10

Share your love!

Contact Tracing

Give the gift of leprosy screening to one family member of a person diagnosed with leprosy. Contact tracing helps stop leprosy transmission. Early detection and treatment can mean patients are less likely to develop irreversible permanent disability.

| CODE: 12754 | $5

Puzzle Page

Puzzle 1: Spot the difference

Here are two fun puzzles for you to try. You could ask a friend to help you and they might find your Gifts of Love catalogue interesting too!

There are six differences between the two pictures of our Anandaban Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal. Can you spot them?

You’ll find the answers to both these puzzles on our website at: shop.leprosymission.org.au

Puzzle 2: Wordsearch

There are 16 words hidden in our Word Square. They may be horizontal, vertical or diagonal – and forwards or backwards. They all relate to our work with Leprosy. Can you find them all?

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The hidden words are:

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a life-changing Gift of Love!

Student Uniforms

Enable a student affected by leprosy to attend and participate in activities at a Vocational Training Centre by providing a uniform. Properly clothed, they can fit in with other students. You give the gift of belonging.

| CODE: 12289 | $25

Pair of Sunglasses

Imagine if your eyes could never fully close. Tiny specks of dust and dirt could cause infection, irritation and blindness. That can happen when leprosy damages the eye’s nerve endings. Sunglasses are a simple but effective way to protect eyes and save sight.

| CODE: 11288 | $10

Pair of Chickens

This gift will set up a poultry business. Eggs provide a family with extra protein, vitamins and minerals in their diet. Any surplus can be sold in the market creating a regular income.

| CODE: 11284 | $10

Physiotherapy

Help someone affected by leprosy recover the use of their fingers, feet or limbs. Your gift will help teach patients the right muscle exercises or how to manage aids or prosthetics.

| CODE: 12647 | $15

Celebrate 150 years of the Leprosy Mission

As a token of gratitude for your unwavering support of The Leprosy Mission, here is an exclusive sneak peek at our specially curated collection commemorating our 150th anniversary!

Gifts of Love® is a registered trademark of The Leprosy Mission Australia and may not be used by any means or in any form whatsoever without written permission.

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The Leprosy Mission Australia ABN 52 354 004 543 (TLMA) is a member of the Australian Council for International Development and is a signatory to the ACFID Code of Conduct. See more at ACFID’s website: www.acfid.asn.au.

The Leprosy Mission Australia is an international organisation that works in partnership with governments, public health officials, non-government organisations, the World Health Organisation, churches, Christian partners and others to achieve its vision of a world without leprosy. The Leprosy Mission is the oldest and largest leprosy-focused organisation in the world today.