Puri 04.02.2009 India ( Orissa)
Karunalaya, leprosy care center, made by fr. Marian Zelazek SVD. A hospital, portrait of a patient
Gatapar (Chhattisgarh) 22.02.2010 India.Jeevodaya, The Social and Leprosy Rehabilitation Centre, established in 1969 by a Polish missionary and medical doctor, father Adam Wisniewski. At present, more than 400 children coming from families suffering from leprosy attend Jeevodaya school and stay in the boarding houses.
Ramgarh 27.02.2010 India.
Leprosy colony. This is the place where works sister Stefania from Poland. A grand mother with grand children.
Gatapar (Chhattisgarh) 18.02.2009 India.
Jeevodaya, The Social and Leprosy Rehabilitation Centre, established in 1969 by a Polish missionary and medical doctor, father Adam Wisniewski. At present, more than 200 children coming from families suffering from leprosy attend Jeevodaya school and stay in the boarding houses. Polish doctor Helena Pyz.
Puri 04.02.2009 India ( Orissa)
Ishopanthi Ashram - christian mission made by fr. Marian Zelazek SVD. Karunalaya a leprosy care center, leprosy colony. A picture of fr. Marian in Beatrix School office.
Ramgarh 25.02.2010 India
Leprosy colony. This is the place where works sister Stefania from Poland. Weeding.
Ramgarh 27.02.2010 India
Leprosy colony. This is the place where works sister Stefania from Poland. A dog.
Ramgarh 01.03.2010 India
Leprosy colony. This is the place where works sister Stefania from Poland. Sister carrying away a home made alcohol
Gatapar (Chhattisgarh) 20.02.2009 India.Jeevodaya
The Social and Leprosy Rehabilitation Centre, established in 1969 by a Polish missionary and medical doctor, father Adam Wisniewski. At present, more than 400 children coming from families suffering from leprosy attend Jeevodaya school and stay in the boarding houses.
Puri 05.02.2009 Indie ( Orisa)
Ishopanthi Ashram, katolicka misja i Karunalaya, kolonia dla tredowatych, zalozycielem ktorej byl polski misjonarz o. Marian Zelazek SVD..Maly szpital dla najciezej chorych.
Ramgarh 02.03.2010 India
Leprosy colony. This is the place where works sister Stefania from Poland.
Gatapar (Chhattisgarh) 16.02.2009 India
Jeevodaya, The Social and Leprosy Rehabilitation Centre, established in 1969 by a Polish missionary and medical doctor, father Adam Wisniewski. At present, more than 400 children coming from families suffering from leprosy attend Jeevodaya school and stay in the boarding houses. Cementary for people from mission.
atapar (Chhattisgarh) 18.02.2009 India
Jeevodaya, The Social and Leprosy Rehabilitation Centre, established in 1969 by a Polish missionary and medical doctor, father Adam Wisniewski. At present, more than 400 children coming from families suffering from leprosy attend Jeevodaya school and stay in the boarding houses. Lesson of biology.
Ramgarh 26.02.2010 India
Leprosy colony. This is the place where works sister Stefania from Poland. Weeding.
Gatapar (Chhattisgarh) 17.02.2009 India
Jeevodaya, The Social and Leprosy Rehabilitation Centre, established in 1969 by a Polish missionary and medical doctor, father Adam Wisniewski. At present, more than 400 children coming from families suffering from leprosy attend Jeevodaya school and stay in the boarding houses. Medicines for children
Ramgarh 25.02.2010 India
Leprosy colony. This is the place where works sister Stefania from Poland.
Ramgarh 23.02.2010 India
Leprosy colony. This is the place where works sister Stefania from Poland. Traffic.
Ramgarh 01.03.2010 India
Leprosy colony. This is the place where works sister Stefania from Poland. Children and dead chicken.
Gatapar (Chhattisgarh) 20.02.2009 India
Jeevodaya, The Social and Leprosy Rehabilitation Centre, established in 1969 by a Polish missionary and medical doctor, father Adam Wisniewski. At present, more than 400 children coming from families suffering from leprosy attend Jeevodaya school and stay in the boarding houses.
Ramgarh 27.02.2010 India
Leprosy colony. This is the place where works sister Stefania from Poland. Recycling of electronic trashes.
Ramgarh 27.02.2010 India
Leprosy colony. This is the place where works sister Stefania from Poland.
Ramgarh 03.03.2010 India
Leprosy colony. This is the place where works sister Stefania from Poland.
Puri 07.02.2009 India ( Orissa)
Ishopanthi Ashram - christian mission made by fr. Marian Zelazek SVD. Karunalaya a leprosy care center, leprosy colony.
Worldwide, two to three million people are estimated to be permanently disabled because of leprosy. India has the greatest number of cases . Numerous organizations and volunteers offer aid to the leprosy affected people. Among them, Poles.
In the years 2009 and 2010 I visited three places where they battled and still battle leprosy. First was Puri (Orissa State). In the year 1975 Polish missionary Father Marian Zelazek created and ran for thirty years, a center, to help patients with leprosy and their families.
He organized work for them, as well as education. He died at the colony in 2006. Today, the colony functions well, manufacturing cords and ropes, shoes, bandages. Children attend the Beatrix School, built close to the colony. Jeevodaya, near Raipur, central India, came second with the Jeevodaya Center created in 1969 by Polish missionary doctor Father Adam Wisniewski. Doctor Helena Pyz, also from Poland, lives and works there now, caring for the leprosy affected families. Over four hundred children from the lepper colonies of the Chattiharth State attend the Center's school.
In the beginning of the year 2010 I travelled to Ramgarh, where for the past twenty years Sister Stephanie of the Franciscan Order, from the Silesia region in Poland, has been treating leprosy patients as well as teaching them, organizing their work, helping out with domestic and family problems. Every day she visits one of the three colonies. The citizens of the colony call her "Didi", which refers to "older sister".
In all those colonies, apart from medical care, the most important problems are poverty and lack of education. The part of the leprosy colonies map doubles the map showing the most poor regions of the country. Special care is needed for the children coming from leprosy affected families. It is important, that once they have grown up and freed from the ghetto of the leprosy colony, they will lead independent lives.
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