Bringing tangible HOPE to forgotten lepers and their children. 

 

 

"The love of God inspires us to serve and see value in the families of the leper colony."  

- REV. Padma Murty, Executive Director of Sweet Savour India

 

 

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Feeding Children

Because of the debilitating effects of leprosy, the adults in this colony are unable to work.  At age 6, their children take on the role of family provider and begin a career of begging along the highways.  With your help, Pastor Padma Murty and her team can feed them 3 meals a day so they no longer have to beg.

Caring for wounds

Leprosy is a brutal and inhumane disease.  Those affected by it will eventually lose their limbs, their facial extremities, and sight.  When it becomes known that they are infected, they are cast out from society, no longer allowed to travel, be in public settings, work, or associate with people outside of the colony.

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Education

A hopeful future for the children of these lepers begins with hopeful minds.  By starting a school we have been able to enroll 118 children in daily classes.  With math, reading, language, geography, science, history, dance and art, these children have a chance for life beyond the leper colony.

Hope Coming to The Leper Colony at Midnapur

 

Water.  Electricity.  Education.  Bathrooms.  Dignity.

The basic neccessities needed for health, sanitation and education did not exist before Sweet Savour Ministries came with a message of hope for the 800 people living in a completely ostracized leper colony outside of Kolkata, India.  While virtually forgotten by their own people, they are a community Padma Murty, the Executive Director of Sweet Savour Ministries India, has personally adopted as her own.  

 

 

Education for Future Leaders

 

Padma and her team at Sweet Savour Ministries started a school and development center which is becoming a radical movement of hope for the children of these lepers….many of whom do not yet have the disease, but remain disadvantaged and despised by society because they are from the colony.  

With genuine belief that these children were created by God to have a hope and a future, Padma and her staff of educators gather 118 of the colony's children after they have finished begging for the day and teaches them art, science, languages, dance, math, and history.