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For the children of the leper colony visitors are few. This small village on the outskirts of the small town of Mbé in North Cameroon is a safe haven for former leper patients.
As a show of support fighting the stigma hitting people treated and cured of leprosy are unclean and 2nd class fellow humans, our travel group visited the isolated small village.
We were warmly welcomed and showed around, and photographs were taken. Modern digital cameras with screens showing the results immediately were a popular novelty.
It was the Norwegian doctor and scientist Gerhard A. Hansen that identified the origin of leprosy and developed the first modern treatment. Modern medicine can effectively eradicate this 4000-year-old curse to humanity, but there are still some regions of the world where it exists in the wild.
This colony got a few new patients from the surrounding region every year. After treatment and cure, many former patients are not welcomed back to their former villages. They stay in this small village, where they get health follow ups and can do some farming and home handicraft for sale.
The children attend school in the village.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Armauer_Hansen
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For the children of the leper colony visitors are few. This small village on the outskirts of the small town of Mbé in North Cameroon is a safe haven for former leper patients.
As a show of support fighting the stigma hitting people treated and cured of leprosy are unclean and 2nd class fellow humans, our travel group visited the isolated small village.
We were warmly welcomed and showed around, and photographs were taken. Modern digital cameras with screens showing the results immediately were a popular novelty.
It was the Norwegian doctor and scientist Gerhard A. Hansen that identified the origin of leprosy and developed the first modern treatment. Modern medicine can effectively eradicate this 4000-year-old curse to humanity, but there are still some regions of the world where it exists in the wild.
This colony got a few new patients from the surrounding region every year. After treatment and cure, many former patients are not welcomed back to their former villages. They stay in this small village, where they get health follow ups and can do some farming and home handicraft for sale.
The children attend school in the village.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Armauer_Hansen
#boy #village #villagelife #lepra #lepracolony #visit #selfie #children #joy #mbe #Mbé #roadtrip #countryside #cameroon #NikonD800 #D800 #Nikon #Nikkor #85mm #f1_4 #africa #centralafrica #westafrica #people #excitement #ExtremeNord #Cameroon
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