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    Disability

    Our rehabilitation projects help people with leprosy-related disabilities to learn to manage on their own as much as possible. The support we provide ranges from donating adjusted footwear, crutches or wheelchairs to the customisation and maintenance of various sorts of prostheses, as well as surgery to mend serious damage to feet or hands.

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Welcome to Netherlands Leprosy Relief

NLR’s website is specially dedicated to leprosy. Through this website you can get all the information, literature, links and other information related to leprosy.
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LONDEN – The movie trailer “The Pirates” from Aardman Animations has recently been criticized by LEPRA/Health in Action – the British Leprosy Relief Foundation – and NLR. In the trailer of this movie an arm falls off a crewmember of a ‘leper-boat’. In response to this criticism a spokesman of Aardman Animations said: “After reviewing the matter, we decided to change the scene out of respect and sensitivity for those who suffer from leprosy.”

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