We visited Rising Star Outreach, a residence school for children of families affected by leprosy, founded by a Mormon mom from Atlanta (go to risingstaroutreach.org for the amazing story behind it) and staffed by American volunteers. Historically, lepers have been cast out of society and isolated in government colonies in the countryside. The disease can be controlled by modern medication, but it is communicable to those with a genetic predisposition, which of course the children of lepers will have. If the children are taken out of the environment and given a good education, the disease -and the colonies- can be shut down in a generation.
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