for and by the people affected by leprosy in Liangshan
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for and by the people affected by leprosy in Liangshan
January 2010 Issue for and by the people affected by leprosy in Liangshan Message from the Board Welcome to 2010! On behalf of the board of RCHKS-Handa, we thank you for your support and encouragement in the past year and wish you all a joyful and prosperous year ahead. Many events have happened in the last quarter of 2009 which brought changes and enabled new development in 2010. To name a few, we resumed direct management of the field operations, implemented a new organisation structure, recruited a new chief executive officer, Bok Kam Lun, and a new communication and administrative officer, Sebastian Tseung, in Hong Kong, and inspired new volunteers like Dr Theresia Liem. All these are certain to bring about new perspectives and achievements to the project. On 6 November 2009, we held our second annual general meeting (AGM). The project and financial reports for 2008-2009 were adopted, Profectus and Co was re-appointed auditors, and new board members were elected. Board members for 2009-2010 are Peter Barrett as Chairman; Tony Leung as Director of Finace; Nicholas Pirie as Director of Fund Raising; Liza Yu as Honorary Secretary; Francesco Cavazzoni; Peter Chu; C Peabody Hutton; Bernie Ting; Peter Wan and James Wardell. Please welcome newcomers Liza Yu (Honorary Secretary) and Jim Wardell. An Open Evening was held immediately after the AGM, which was a face-toface update to our members, donors, friends and volunteers on the project. Through this we hoped to enhance direct communication and exchange views among all interested parties to the benefit of the project. We reported activities in 2009 and communicated plans for coming six months. The Jinyang water system project was completed in February and the rehabilitation and activity centre was officiated in May by Dr David Anderson and local government officials. Community development plans were rolled out in Xide and Ganluo with guidance of newly engaged consultant Prof Chen Xiaobo. Village committees were set up for consultation of village programmes, as a first step for the villagers to become independent and eventually capable of managing their own programmes. The eye surgery programme was successfully completed with 34 villagers regained eye-sight. The new 5-year plan of the Liangshan Centre for Disease Control and Prevention was received. The Board has strengthened corporate governance, expanded membership and formalised structures and documentation of policies, and published a communication timetable. Board representatives also set up a booth at Rotary International Convention in Birmingham in June 2009 to bring the project to international Rotary communities, and feedback was positive. Plans up to March 2010 were also unfolded. Efforts to improve physical rehabilitation will be continued, as well as those in volunteer recruitment and development, social integration and public acceptance. Extension of community development plans to cover two more villages would be studied. Microfinance programmes in Xide and Ganluo would be improved. Stove and flue units would be provided for in selected villages to improve hygiene and living conditions. Village sow banks would be developed. In general, further improvements would be built on established grounds and new initiatives would be introduced wherever needed and feasible. The project report covered activities and achievements of the past year. The progress and achievements of the project were indebted to many While the report is available to members and donors, we would like to people and organisations who have contributed their time, money, highlight some key updates here. A breakthrough in social integration of the expertise and effort. We would like to take this opportunity to say a big PALs was noted from the International Day of Dignity “THANK YOU.” Special thanks go to our PALs, and Respect for PALs held on 11 March 2009 where Liangshan CDC, Liangshan Public Health Bureau, thousands Xichang citizens attended the events Liangshan People Friendship Association, Rotary held for and by PALs. Large number of volunteers District 2450, Rotary Club of Hong Kong South, were mobilised, and many of them continued to be various other Rotary Clubs in Hong Kong, Italy involved with the project. Confidence boosted, PALs and the UK, Kadoorie Charitable Foundation, St in Puge initiated and organised their first ever social Stephen’s Chapel Stanley, Order of St Lazarus in integration programme riding on their traditional Malta, Profectus & Co, colleagues on the Board, Torch Festival and invited participation of non-PAL Sally Chun and Liza Yu. The list can go on and on. communities. Much progress was achieved in Finally may we all wish good health and prosperity to building self-esteem of PALs and acceptance from our PALs in Liangshan. the community. This was an important step towards Our new board members: from left: Bernie Ting; James Wardell; Francesco Cavazzoni; elimination of social stigma. Peter Barrett Liza yu; Nicholas Pirie; Peter Barrett; Peabody Chairman Hutton; Dr David Anderson and Tony Leung Contents Message from the Board .......................................................1 Message from the new CEO .................................................7 The Xide Embroidery Co-operative Changed Our Lives ....... 2 Christmas Fête by St. Stephen’s Chapel Stanley..................7 Activities Highlights September-December 2009 ...............3-5 Welcome to New Staff in Hong Kong ....................................8 My First Visit as Volunteer Medical Consultant .....................5 Acknowledgement to Donors.................................................8 Yi New Year in Xide ...............................................................7 Published by RCHKS-Handa Projects International Limited Address: 601 Eastern Harbour Centre, 28 Hoi Chak Street, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong Tel: +852 2873 5050 Email: [email protected] 1 January 2010 Issue The Xide Embroidery Co-operative Changed Our Lives The embroidery team started with making small items such as coasters and purses. by Jibu Wuniu (Original in Chinese) We Yi Women traditionally wear colourful and attractively patterned clothes made by our own hands. This has caught the attention of Jidi Shiri, the community development officer of RCHKS-Handa. Thinking that we could utilise our traditional needlework skills to improve our livelihood, he organised us to form a team to make some embroidery patterns in 2006. As a start, wrist bands, small purses and Yi style ring accessories were made for sale at the charity sales organised by our partner, St Stephen's Chapel Stanley in Hong Kong. Our embroideries were well received. We made over a thousand RMB from the sale. We were all very excited. Women in our village never had our own money before, as men dominated our society. Conventionally, the men do not understand our needs. Jibu Wuniu and her daughter; look at their genuine smiling faces, this shows how this programme has improved their lives. We must go on and spread this programme to other villages. Encouraged, we carried on making embroideries for sale through the help of the project staff and St Stephen’s. We received more than two thousand RMB from sales in 2007, and the amount more than doubled a year later. In 2009 we made RMB15,780, which was a real breakthrough for us. Yi woman wearing traditional dress for special occasions, the more the silver accessories the better. Team member showing a embroidered square she made. We recognise that in order for the sales to grow, we must sharpen our embroidery skills, improve the product quality and expand the range of products. The project staff have been supporting us in all these and we are grateful to them. We would like to specially thank the tall Canadian lady, Jenya Hayhoe, for helping us with the design and marketing. Without their help and encouragement, it would not be possible for us to make it this far. The making of embroidery products means a lot to us. Not just that we make money from it, but more importantly it enabled us to change our lives. We are now able to have our own money to buy fertilizers for our The embroidery team in Xide 2 January 2010 Issue Continued Activities Highlights September-December 2009 9 September 2009 • Professor Chen Xiaobo was appointed as Project Manager in Xichang • Incomes from sales of products were paid to the women in the Embroidery Co-operative in Xide. Their social and family status has now improved. They have offered as a result, to do more embroidery items. Now we not only wear clothes made by ourselves, but also big smiles plots. We can buy women health care products and medicines that we need for ourselves and the children. We are able to meet some of our daily needs, without relying on our husbands. We no longer need to painfully beg our husbands for monies. We are free to manage our own money and make appropriate decisions on how to spend it. We in the embroidery co-operative do not have to fight with our husbands over small money issues! Just five of us started the co-operative in 2006, and now there are 31 of us. From the small items like wrist bands and purses we made at start, we have expanded our range of products to include tote bags, tee shirts, coasters, and patterned patches designed for different use. We are looking forward to promoting more embroidered goods at more charity fairs in Hong Kong. This provides opportunities, as well as incomes, to us less advantaged women which we would not otherwise have. We live in remote mountain villages, which still carry the heavy stigma of leprosy. I would like to thank the project team and volunteers like Jenya for initiating the embroidery project and developing the co-operative. We hope this can set a role model for other mountain villages that carry the leprosy stigma in Liangshan. Distributing money to the lady team members of the embroidery co-operative • The community development foundation programme has continued with the giving out of pig rings and building renovations before installing special stoves. 10 October 2009 • Dr Theresia Liem, who volunteered to help our project as medical consultant, made her first visit to Liangshan with our Medical Director, Dr David Anderson. They visited the villages of Ganluo, Xide and Yanbian. They also followed up on Chen Hongjiao in Ganluo and other special cases. Dr Anderson and Dr Liem examining Chen Hongjiao’s improved limb responses after her spinal operation. The hottest selling items for 2009 - tote bags. 3 January 2010 Issue Continued I wish people in all walks of life would enjoy and like the products we make with joy and blessing, as they have changed our lives for the better. Thank you for making the great efforts to have the products sold in Hong Kong. Thank you RCHK - Handa. Volunteers wearing Yi clothes made by the team Facts about Xide Year of Establishment: 1958 as Leprosy Village Administrative Name: Qian Jin Village Activities Highlights September-December 2009 11 November 2009 • New CEO of the Project K L Bok paid his first visit to Liangshan and met with the staff in the Xichang office. K L visited the Huili Village to have a better understanding of the life of PALs in the village as well as the daily operation. • Journalist Wu Yaoyao went to Puge with Dr Kelly Xu to visit Qian Zhichang, the only Han PAL in Puge for the preparation of a TV documentary about him and the village to be broadcast by the Phoenix TV. Qian Zhichang interviewed by Wu Yaoyao accompanied with Dr Kelly Xu Population: 336 villagers living in three hamlets Ethnicity: Yi People affected by Leprosy: 110 (50 with visible disabilities) Geography: The village is 2,500 metres above sea level and divided into three hamlets, two located on the two sides of a mountain stream and one at the top of the mountain. In general, the houses are clustered together. It takes 1.5 hours to walk through the three hamlets. Infrastructure: There is water and 2 phase power supply. Villagers have to walk along a muddy footpath to a narrow track along the stream bed, to reach the main road leading to Xide Town a few km away. The road is not accessible by 4 WD during the rainy season from July to September. A health clinic and recreation centre was built in 2008. Two health care workers and a village doctor serve the PALs. Medical supplies to the clinic are not abundant. The prefectural government has given a subsidy to each family to renovate their houses but stoves and flues were not provided for in the new houses. RCHKS-Handa provided new sets of heating/ cooking stoves and proper flues for ten families, demonstrating to and encouraging other villagers to install and use stoves and flues in their new houses which is a step towards improving their living and hygiene condition. Economy: There are 500 mu of arable land, but it slopes steeply. The soil is not fertile. Productivity is entirely dependant upon rainfall higher up in the mountains. There is a long dry winter season and this limits the variety of crops grown. Villagers grow maize, potatoes, cabbages and radishes. Small areas are planted with buckwheat. On the lower slopes there are apple and walnut trees. Villagers also raise pigs, goats and cattle for cash to supplement their food supply, but heir animal husbandry skills need to be improved. The staple crops are maize and potatoes. Occasionally they eat rice or even pork when there are guests or during special festivals. The per capita income is very low so younger villagers leave the village to work in cities. The embroidery cooperative was set up in 2006. After a slow start, this has substantially increased the women’s income, but also their social status. In 2009, RCHKS-Handa started the first micro bank scheme and granted loans of RMB40,000 for the purchase of 15 sows. Education: There is one school in the village which was renovated in 2008. There are 90 pupils attending classes from grade 1 to grade 9. The boys to girls ratio is 6:4. Other Subsidies: PALs receive allowances from the government, ranging from RMB33 to RMB120 a month each depending on their disabilities. Wu Yaoyao and Puge Village kids in the school playground. • Staff in Xichang attended a talk on “Participatory Community Development Planning” organised by Professor Chen Xiaobo, our Project Manager to strengthen the communication and cooperation between staff. 12 December 2009 • The project took up rehabilitation work of a new village, Kang Le Village in Moxi, Ganzi Prefecture, near the border with Liangshan. • Dr Liu Guangyou, our workshop technician went to Moxi (Kang Le Village) to examine and fit new artificial limbs for PALs there. Dr Liu Guangyou fitting artificial limbs for the PALs in Kang Le Village, Moxi 4 January 2010 Issue My First Visit as Volunteer Medical Consultant by Dr Theresia Liem Some time ago, I was asked by a very good friend of mine, an exceutive medical director of a hospital at the Peak, whether I was interested in a volunteer work for a leprosy project. (I’m an internist oncologist trained and practiced in the Netherlands for nearly two decades). Activities Highlights September-December 2009 12 December 2009 Beginning 2009 Mr Nick Pirie contacted me, since then the ball started rolling and we decided to make a trip to visit the villages in Liangshan. On 27 October 2009, accompanied by Prof David Anderson I travelled by bus from Kowloon to Shenzhen Bay. So far our trip went smoothly, and we arrived in Shenzhen airport long before the departure time. Unfortunately for an unknown reason the flight was delayed for more than two hours and we missed our connection flight from Chengdu to Xichang. We started thinking of looking for a hotel to stay overnight, but we were relieved when we learned that the airline would provide us an airport hotel. Other than my previous experience with the airport hotels, this airport hotel located in front of Chengdu old airport was quite special, not only did they provide us dinner and breakfast but also bed bugs and poor sanitation.... It seemed that our adventures had started. PALs having their eyes examined. • Filming of the documentary about PAL by Phoenix TV started. It is hosted by the renowned journalist Ren Ren. The documentary should help improve public education about leprosy and reduce the stigma. Sichuan Provincial Education Bureau officials, and the officials from CDC in Liangshan Prefecture are interviewed. Anyway the next morning after breakfast, we were heading Xichang. Sally Chun picked us up at the Xichang airport. Fortunately, after a short briefing at the office in Xichang we could start our trip by SUV as planned. We planned to visit three villages, Ganluo, Xide and Yanbian. On average it took us nearly the whole day to travel before we arrived at our destination. The longer we travelled the more beautiful the sceneries, they were really marvellous. The long travelling time was in fact quite useful, as I had opportunities to learn more about the project and to discuss the cases with the team. The first village we visited was Ganluo, a small remote village on the top of the mountain. From quite a distance in the car we already could see the white houses and the new school building of Ganlou, it’s quite picturesque. The villagers were very friendly. It’s very impressive that they let us freely inspect their houses and showed us everything without hesitation. Some of the households are neat and tidy but most of them were quite messy, and had bad beddings. The toilet is located outside the house between the cow and the pigs, with just a slit in the ground. Phoenix TV reporter, Ren Ren interviewing Qian Zhichang, the only Han Chinese in Puge village with Sonya Li of our staff. Filming of the TV documentary at the home of Mr Qian • An annual evaluation and planning meeting was held among CEO K L Bok and the staff in Xichang office. Dr Liem and Dr Anderson with the staff 5 January 2010 Issue Continued is quite moving to see the less privileged children so keen to study further than the village can provide. Although every house has running cold water and a tub in the front garden, where they can do their laundry and ladies wash their long hair but there is neither hot water nor the facility to take shower. We learned that they take shower in the same place where the toilet is located with the cow and pigs as companies. Two households have bi-functional wood burning stoves placed in the living room, and used as stove and heater. The stove is expensive and will cost them RMB700 which is more than their annual income of RMB500. However, it is affordable as they can take a loan with interest. One of many examples to illustrate their good mentality is the fact that PAL pay back the loan with equal rate of interest as others who take loan from the bank, without expectation of special treatment. Chen Hongjiao learning to walk again after the surgury provided by the Matilda Interiantional Hospital with her mother. Yanbian is the last place we have visited this time. In fact it is not a village as such but rather a home for elderly disabled PAL. Although the building itself looks good, the path to the toilet for those disabled people is not the easy one. One PAL having bilateral amputations with ulcer over one of his stump, so he travels on a low board. Everyday he has to do, in my eyes a kind of acrobatic movement whenever he needs to go to the toilet along a curly and uneven path. Not only is it quite risky, but this way his ulcer has never had a chance to heal because of the repeated trauma he gets. The living circumstances of the PAL mentioned above are just some of the special cases we saw when visiting those those villages. I think our team in Xichang is quite motivated, although there is always room for We also supervised the health care worker, improvement. Now we are implementing our A Mu taking care of PAL, he is skilful and guideline for the field medical staffs. dedicated. He also donated a piece of his land for the village health care centre and Concerning the facilities, in the near future Dr Liem and Dr Anderson visting Kui Hua Rehabilitation building. The young children we definitely should pay more attention to a Village in Ganluo. in Ganluo share the school with the children better hygiene, sanitation condition and the from the “normal” villages in the surrounding, future of the children, e.g. by providing them scholarship to get so far it seems that they are ”accepted“ as schoolmates. higher education. The next village we visited is Xide which is quite different from As an oncologist I have seen many agonies of our cancer patients Ganluo. The landscape is different, and most of the time I needed and their family, we used to think to be the worst. However, whenever help from the villager to go up and down the bad maintained path. visiting the PAL, I would think that it doesn’t cause less agony just For the disabled PAL it is quite difficult to make access. because leprosy is not a deadly disease. Especially for those who have lost the function of their extremities, mutilated by the disease We inspected the health care worker and visited the health care and isolated by the society for their whole life long. centre run by Dr Lu, an older village doctor. Although I believe they definitely have good mission, there is still much room to improve It is good that we are concerned about diseases with high incidence their clinical practice to reach a good standard. in the developed countries and spend our efforts, time and money to do research to improve its treatment because they are next door, There are also many children living in Xide, most of them are but it doesn’t mean we may ignore leprosy because we don’t see motivated to study further after they attend the primary school. It them in our neighbourhood. It is very important to help PAL to help themselves that they eventually may go back and be accepted by the not PAL counterpart in the society. Our challenge is to improve their living standard and quality of life, without changing the core of their culture but keep giving respect to their dignity. To reach these targets, it is also quite essential to work together, to have a good communication and relation with the local authorities. Last but not least, I would like to thank Dr Hans Schrader who has informed me about the project, Dr David Anderson who has introduced me to the team in Xichang and the PAL and taken care of me during the trip, to Sally, Xiaobo, the team and RCHKS-Handa who have organized the trip and to my family for letting me join the project. PAL in Yanbian growing maize and vegetables to supplement their daily meals. 6 January 2010 Issue Yi New Year in Xide by Jidi Shiri (Original in Chinese) Zhushi means “New Year” in the Yi language. In 2009, the New Year of the Yi people, and thus villagers in Xide, fell on 21 November. Every family was busy preparing food and necessities for the Yi New Year, people even did not have time to sit around and chat. According to the custom, villagers gather and log firewood from the mountain 15 days before the New Year. They store the firewood at home, and use them to keep the stove burning during the New Year. It is tradition that the fire must be kept alive continuously for the first three days and nights of the New Year. Families gather for dinner at the New Year’ Eve to celebrate the completion of the year. A Green Bean Soup, called A-pu-lao-ce-ji in Yi Language, is a must have for the dinner. Everyone must at least have one bowl. After dinner and before dawn, villagers clean their houses, making sure that all dust and dirt are gone before the sun rises on the New Year’s Day. The Yi people mostly eat pork, and especially during festivals for celebration. The first day of the year is the day to kill pigs for the New Year feasts. Young men in the village will go from house to house to perform the scared task. They place large and small bamboo mats on the floor and slaughter the pigs on them. Large mats are for use outside the house, while the small ones for use indoor. Once done, they enjoy the rest of the day eating barbecued pork and drinking home brewed wines. Yi women making glutinous rice cake The second day of the New Year is a busy day for the women. Message from the new CEO Hello, friends of PALs, it is the common concern for people affected by leprosy that brought me to the position. The organization has undergone quite some changes recently: Handa ceased to be the manager and the departure of our programme officer. We have now ten leprosy rehabilitation villages and expect to provide community development service beyond the present two villages in the coming year. The warm hearts of our staff, Board, members, donors, supporters and friends meet here for the common vision of development and improvement of PALs. The optimal use of resources to bring sustainable development to the people through self help is a continued principle. I know my long years of social service management experience, the Board and staff will help me meet the challenge in Hong Kong and in Liangshan and I hope with our collaboration we can bring systematic operation and planned results to the next level. K L Bok December 2009 They will be busy making home made sausages and marinating pig stomachs and intestines with spices. There is nothing much for the men villagers to do on this day. The older men Young male villagers preparing pork will go from house to house, on the bamboo mat specially weaved for this occasion drinking home brewed wines from different households and checking out which household has the biggest pig carcass in the village. The young men usually play poker games or sports such as basketball. The men will set to work on the third day of the New Year, they chop up the pig carcasses to make preserved meat. They will make pork brawn by cooking up the head and trotters of a pig. It is customary for Yi people to offer pork brawn to their parents-in-law when they visit them during the New Year. The fourth day is the day when married daughters, together with their hushands, will pay a home visit to their parents. In Yi tradition, the sons-in-law need to pay for the wines they drink at their in-laws’ home, and usually a generous voluntary offering is expected. Thus most men will get drunk on this day, and they sing and dance joyfully. The New Year holiday for the Yi people lasts for several days. People will stay in the village and not do any travel during the Yi New Year. If for some reasons, villagers have to leave the village during the New Year period, they will eat some pig intestines before they set off. Otherwise, they will eat the pig intestines only on the seventh day of the New Year. The meal with intestines is the completion mark of the Yi New Year, signifying the end of the festive holiday. Christmas Fête by St Stephen's Chapel Stanley by Nicholas Pirie On a glorious sunny day, 5 December 2009, a number of volunteers went to St. Stephen’s Church Fête in Stanley on Hong Kong Island to help man the RCHKSHanda’s stall. We would like to thank Sister Therese Sohier ICM, Jenya Hayhoe and Tessa Walker for helping us to raise $5,850, and also Ricky Chan for helping on the design and production, and Sebastian for co-ordinating the work behind From left: Jenya Hayhoe; Sister Therese Sohire ICM; Tessa Walker and Sebastian Tseung at the back the scenes. On this occasion we sold mostly tote bags which were very popular and we sold out, also got more enquiries for further shipments. All of the profits go directly to the Xide Women’s embroidery co-operative to enable them to have an income of their own. If you want to buy any of the items, please contact Sebastian on +852 2873 5050 or email: [email protected]. 7 January 2010 Issue Welcome to New Staff in Hong Kong Our programme officer Sally Chun has left us to work with children affected by the earthquake in Chengdu after five years setting up the project and bringing it to a new level. Thank you so much Sally. and enable us to find the right staff to implement our community development projects and rehabilitation projects, which are essentially results orientated. Sebastian Tseung joined as our new Communication and Administrative Officer. Sebastian has worked in electronic parts marketing for 13 years. He went on a Liangshan trip as interpreter for Nick Pirie last year. After this trip, he was determined to join the project to help PALs. He will handle donations and you can contact him on +852 2873 5050 or email to [email protected] To get the project going, two new members join the Hong Kong office - Bok Kam Lun and Sebastian Tseung. Welcome K L and Seb. Bok Kam Lun (Pronounced as Bu Jianlin in Putonghua) joined as our new Chief Executive Officer. He comes from a strong background of social work in Hong Kong, having previously worked in rehabilitation, and for older people, running large projects and homes. He has taught social work in Shenzhen recently. His high standards of professionalism in Hong Kong should mean better work flows, management controls Chairman Peter Barrett in the middle, CEO K L Bok on the right and Sebastian Tseung on the left. K L will work in and out of Hong Kong while Sebastian stations in our Hong Kong Office. We wish them good luck in helping RCHK-Handa to expand this exciting and challenging project in Sichuan. Acknowledgement to Donors Donors who have made donations to the project during the period October to December 2009 (in alphabetical order) : Chan, Esther Ho, Wing Kwong Alex Li, Siu Ha Sue Cheung, Kenneth The Hong Kong And Far East Masonic Liem, Giok Siong Theresia Cheung, Kwok Leung Simon Benevolent Fund Corporation Ma, Lai Ha Jenny Tam, Bin Sam Cheung, Miu Ling Penny HSBC Trustee (HK) Limited Ng, Bessie Tjong, Lai Ping Elaine Chow, Yuen Wing Winnie Lai, Pui Chun Ellen Ng, Kwai Yin Caroline Tsang, Yuk Ying Rita Chu, Wing Him Anson Lai, Siu Mun Shirley Mr & Mrs Sceats Wong, Kowk Fai David Dong, Yan Xia Rebecca Lau, Sau May Iris Sheffield Quaker Meeting House Wong, Yin Yu Liza Fung, Yuk Yee Katherine Lee, Bruce Shum, Siu Bor John Yelling Baptist Chapel He, Jodie Leung, Lai Shan Susanna Shupack, Paul Adam RCHKS-Handa Liangshan Leprosy Project The Liangshan Leprosy Project was initiated by Rotary Club of Hong Kong South in 2002. RCHKS-Handa Projects International Limited now runs the project with the support of the Liangshan Prefecture Centre of Disease Control and Prevention. It serves ten leprosy villages in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in southern Sichuan. There are approximately 1,700 villagers in these villages, of whom 440 are affected by leprosy. RCHKS-Handa Projects International Limited, a registered charitable organisation in Hong Kong, is set up purposely to run the leprosy project in mainland China. It is governed by a board of directors. Our vision is to provide a healthy, sustainable socio-economic environment with enhanced education opportunities in the leprosy villages in Liangshan. Please feel free to contact us at [email protected] or +852 2873 5050 if you want to know more about the project or contribute to it. Published by RCHKS-Handa Projects International Limited Address: 601 Eastern Harbour Centre, 28 Hoi Chak Street, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong Donation methods Make your cheque payable to “RCHKSHanda Projects International Limited” and send it to 601 Eastern Harbour Centre, 28 Hoi Chak Street, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong. Deposit your donation to The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited bank account 004-808-275358-001 Donations from Hong Kong of HK$100 or above are tax deductible. Please state your name and address with your cheque or pay-in slip if a receipt is required. Tel: +852 2873 5050 Email: [email protected] 8
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