The leprosy is great curse for human race. Circumstances have changed since medieval age when it was an incurable disease. Today it can be fully cured. The dangerous myth that this disease can spread through contact has also been exploded. This myth has been the cause of inhuman hardships for the unfortunate patients all over the world. But for most of the world, beyond a few highly developed countries the fight against leprosy has only started because of new health policies and new drugs fresh cases are no doubt few and far between but we have yet to face the consequences of past. Leprosy itself is not a big problem now but being mostly poor and under developed most patients get cured only when the disease has taken its toll. Deadened limbs are injured while working or in minor accidents, burned by kitchen fire etc. The wounds become ulcerous. Patients do not feel the pain till it is too late. These ulcers are hard to cure. They are no longer leprosy patients because original malady has been cured and for official record they are success stories. Yet we know that these are the worst cases.

They need compassion as much as the medical care. The wounds have to be treated with patience for long periods. There is even graver problem. These patients are no longer fit to get proper livelihood - they can't compete with the normal working classes .The social prejudice against them hasn't vanished yet. They are still uprooted people or nomads. What happens to their families, especially to their normal and healthy children? They are forced to go along with their parents - to beg at the pilgrimage centers in major industrial towns. Or they wander away and fall in hands of antisocial elements. Some of them may enter the dark alleys of bootlegging and smuggling.

Can the society remain unconcerned and apathetic? If not we have come forward. There is no better mission than the service of the most detested and forlorn. We can give them a place in the society. It is our experience that the proper atmosphere can transform these children.