KIT Blog

Married at 10, abandoned at 11. Saved by surgery and now in her 70s! Thank you for your prayers and compassion throughout the years.

Your kindness is truly inspiring. Thanks to you and others like you, Dev Kumari has finally found a place of refuge and comfort at New SADLE in Kathmandu. But it has been a long and harrowing road for her, married then diagnosed with leprosy — all before her teenage years! Dev Kumari’s parents married her off at aged 10, due to their poverty. But after a year, her husband sent her back home again. She’d contracted leprosy. He’d told her he would come back for her after few months… but he never did. When Dev Kumari was 14, her father died. She was already in bad physical condition due to her untreated leprosy. But it became her responsibility to take care of the cattle, her younger siblings, and her mother. She looked after them for years until her mother then also died. Sadly, during years of increasing leprosy-related disability, Dev Kumari never managed to reach a hospital. She only made it as far as the local government health post. But they were unable to give her the right diagnosis or medicine. Tragically, after those lost years of opportunity, she’d lost all the fingers of both hands and all the toes of both feet. It wasn’t until her left leg became useless that she was finally taken to Anandaban Hospital. There she received surgery. Thanks to the support caring and compassionate people like you. Once healed, Dev Kumari had the opportunity to come to New SADLE. Here people affected by leprosy rehabilitate, receive handicraft training and gain employment. The organisation provides free medical services and lodgings to its artisans. Now retired, Dev Kumari is grateful to the staff of New SADLE for their continued hospitality. She is so thankful to you for your kindness. Thank you for not giving up on those in great need. Your generous heart is giving Dev Kumari and others like her the practical, lifesaving help they need. You’re giving them hope for the future. Thank you and God bless you!

Please pray for the dire COVID situation in Nepal. The country has been struggling with only 18,000 doctors (6 per 10,000 people) less than 2,000 ICU beds and 700 ventilators. Urgent provision is vital.

“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me”. —Psalm 23:4 


Donate to ease Nepal's COVID Crisis


The Leprosy Mission seeks to bring about transformation; breaking the chains of leprosy, empowering people to attain healing, dignity, and life in all its fullness.

We are targeting a Triple Zero Leprosy strategy — Zero Leprosy Transmission, Zero Leprosy Disability, and Zero Leprosy Discrimination. We are working hard with our international project partners, and international government organisations, to make leprosy transmission a thing of the past by 2035.

If you feel moved to make an impact today, click here and your gift will be graciously accepted and used where it is most needed.