An Afternoon In The Community

I spent the afternoon on the back of a motorcycle visiting the communities surrounding the hospital. The objective was to photograph people who had been cured and who were living a normal life (a rarity before free multiple drug therapy was available). I visited a tea-seller. Noone knows that he had leprosy (if they did, they would stop buying his tea) and so I pretended to be a tourist, which meant taking photos of everyone in the village also. The tea seller treated his disease early, and therefore, there is no sign of deformity. He is able to live normally in the community without anyone suspecting that he had leprosy. His tea selling business was funded partly by a grant from The Leprosy Mission.