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Your Really Good Gifts can help families like Munna’s this Christmas
and High Impact Really Good Gifts inside! With each gift you will receive a beautiful illustrated Christmas card. Find your order form on the back page, and place your order today, before the 15th December.
to give
Three Really simple Good steps Gifts 1) Choose your gifts from the catalogue These 30 gifts will delight your family and friends, while curing, caring for and restoring the lives of people in poverty who are affected by leprosy.
2) Place your order - in one of three ways: a) complete and return the order form at the back of the catalogue; b) order online at: www.reallygoodgifts.org.nz or c) call free on 0800 862 873.
3) Receive your Really Good Gift Cards before Christmas We need to receive your order by December 15th so we can send your Really Good Gifts Cards for you to give to your friends and loved ones for Christmas. If time is running out please phone us now on 0800 862 873.
Inside each card, you can read how your gift can bring positive impact to the life of a person affected by leprosy. If you have any questions about how Really Good Gifts works please visit leprosymission.org.nz/ FAQ.
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Best Seller! Cure
Foot Surgery
$614
$20
Leprosy can lead to ‘drop foot’, where the ankle no longer lifts the foot to prevent stumbling while walking. With this amazing gift of reconstructive foot surgery and physiotherapy, you will help someone walk again. Without this gift, a person in poverty with leprosy will never be able to afford to step back into a fulfilling life.
Your Really Good Gift enables a person affected by leprosy to access a month of medicine to be cured from this dreadful disease, but cannot afford without you. If leprosy treatment with multi-drug therapy is started early enough, longterm disability can be completely avoided.
A Da Day in Hospit Hospital al
$20 On Christmas Day you can say to a friend or relative, “you have paid for someone to stay for a whole day in a leprosy hospital. They could never have possibly afforded this without you.” Your gift will help them overcome serious disabilities and rejoin their community.
Bandages
$25 Your gift helps protect leprosy-caused ulcers and injuries from infection by providing fresh clean bandages.
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Hospital Bed
$220 Every hospital bed is precious. Your gift will keep on giving for many years to come, providing rest and recuperation for hundreds of people affected by leprosy.
Physio
$20 Your gift provides a vital physiotherapy session for a leprosy-affected patient, helping to restore their movement and confidence.
Counselling
$55 A leprosy diagnosis can cause as much mental anguish as its physical impacts. People affected by leprosy often face terrible discrimination and stigma. Trained counsellors work helping a person to overcome their feelings of rejection and give them back a sense of self worth.
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Best Seller! Hand Surgery
$550
Reconstructive Hand Surgery: Left untreated, leprosy results in hands becoming rigid, clawed and unusable. The tasks we take for granted become impossible. Your gift of highly skilled, delicate reconstructive hand surgery will give someone the chance to get to grips with life again.
SHREYA’S STORY Shreya’s parents died when she was just 10 years old. Thankfully her tribal community cared for her. During a screening campaign Shreya’s leprosy got detected and she went to Anandaban hospital for treatment. She had to stop school at Grade 5 because of the stigma of leprosy. Her classmates told her ”your hands are ugly.” Shreya is now 16 and has had surgery to restore the use of her hand.
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Best Seller! The Gift of Sight
$90 Blindness in poverty is a disaster – even more so when leprosy numbs your nerves so you cannot even feel your way. What a blessing, then, when leprosy related blindness can be prevented or reversed through surgery. Your gift will restore sight and hope.
A Prosthetic Limb
$550 Leprosy can cause a tragic cycle of disability: damaged nerves lead to injuries, burns, infections, sometimes resulting in the loss of a limb. What an extraordinary difference your gift of a prosthetic arm or leg will make. Ram can now walk joyfully again. His prosthetic limb has restored dignity in his life and he is happy and hopeful for the future.
Research 2035
$265 Be part of the team researching new and innovative ways to reach the goal of No Child with Leprosy by 2035 with your gift to Research 2035. Research projects include leprosy screening tools and contract tracing innovations. Your gift of research is vital to seeing a world where leprosy is defeated for good.
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Cure One
Protective Sandals
$432
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“Abeer loves playing football. But he can be a bit naughty!” says his father. Abeer’s father is a daily wage labourer from a poor community. He takes a 200 mile journey of love each month to get his son specialist treatment from the Leprosy Misson. Before it’s too late.
If leprosy is left untreated it can damage the nerve endings that warn us when we hurt our feet. Unable to feel pain or irritation, feet become injured and disabled. Your gift of micro-fibre sandals with soft padding will protect feet for years. This is vital, especially for children, so they can step into adulthood with healthy feet.
With Cure One, a child like Abeer will be cured, cared for and their future will be restored. Transform the life of one person living in poverty, affected by leprosy. Your gift covers disease detection, treatment with medicine to cure, plus medical care where necessary such as surgery or physiotherapy. Your gift also has the power to restore that person back into their community, through ongoing support, education or help with setting up a small business or transitioning into paid full employment.
High Impact!
No child with leprosy
Pavi pressed down on the soft rubber base of her sandals to show how comfortable they are. With leprosy damaged feet, Pavi’s sandals are a lifeline, enabling her to get out and about.
Best Seller!
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You can provide access to one dose of rifampicin to close contacts of people diagnosed with leprosy. You will help reduce leprosy transmission and bring closer the goal of No child with Leprosy by 2035.
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Train a Health Volunteer
$100 Help a village! ‘I am proud that leprosy is caught early and there is no child with disability from leprosy in my village’’ - David , a Village Health Volunteer in Bougainville Your gift enables a village health volunteer to be trained for two weeks, learning the foundations of public health. Because of you, a whole village will benefit from having someone to diagnose and find help for the diseases that threaten their lives, including malaria, TB, typhoid, cholera ... and leprosy.
Motorbike
$2,300 Your gift will help provide motorbikes for community teams to go into remote areas and find new leprosy cases. You’ll help educate communities and erradicate stigma.
Gabriel’s Story Laptop
$938
Our team are the heroes of the Leprosy Mission. Your gift will provide an essential laptop so the team can record and track vital community and patient statistic to provide the best possible care to people affected by leprosy while they are on the move.
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Gabriel is a Leprosy Mission health worker. His motorbike helps him drive through, muddy dirt tracks to get to remote villages. He is trained to diagnose leprosy, provide the cure and support to those affected by leprosy.
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School Bag
Back to School Kit
$48
$46
A school bag and writing materials will help a child recovering from leprosy to feel they belong at school and help them take pride in their work. An education is their best means of escaping poverty and improving their future prospects.
Schools often turn away children from leprosy affected families, but the Leprosy Mission works hard to open school doors. Because leprosy makes life in poverty even more difficult, families cannot usually afford school materials, but your Really Good Gift provides a uniform, books and pens for a year. A child’s best chance of escaping poverty is school.
Vocational Training
$600 Education for a Girl
$83
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Girls in poverty often miss out on school. Even more so for girls affected by leprosy. Your Really Good Gift will pay her fees for a year. She will learn to read, and write, develop self-confidence and go on to have an opportunity to learn a trade or keep learning in higher education. Your gift will empower her for the rest of her life.
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For people in poverty, leprosy attacks their most basic ability to earn a living by hand or on foot. Yet they cannot afford to pay for training in a trade where their disabilities won’t matter. So your gift of a training course will last them a lifetime, earning income, independence, dignity and respect.
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High Impact!
A Sewing Machine
$150 Sewing is the vocation that will never go out of style, but how can a person sew when their hands and feet have been affected by leprosy? This wonderful sewing machine is adapted to their needs. Your gift will give them all the equipment they need to earn a living for life.
Residential Scholarship
$1100
An education is the most valuable asset a young person can attain. This incredible gift covers an approved course, accommodation and all living expenses for one child for a year. More importantly, it gives someone affected by leprosy the means to earn an income and support themselves for a brighter future.
NEW Story This young woman received a residential scholarship to do a computer course at a Vocational Training Centre. He has been given the opportunity to break the cycle of poverty and build a future.
Mary was diagnosed quickly and cured of leprosy. She trained as a seamstress at a Leprosy Mission vocational training centre. She makes the most beautiful clothes with the sewing machine she received at the end of the training course.
A Sewing Kit
$45
By stitching and mending clothes someone affected by leprosy will be given a vocation, and will be able to support and look after their children.
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Best Sellers!
Fish Farm
$92
A Goat
$75
A Goat for a Young Person: If your loved ones include animal lovers, they’ll be thrilled that a goat has been given in their name. Happily nibbling away at weeds, leaves and scraps, your goat can be the start of a breeding herd and a sustainable income for a family suffering from leprosy and living in poverty, producing lots of young goats for sale.
A Dairy Cow
$217
Just imagine how your wonderful gift of a cow will bless the life of a family affected by poverty and leprosy. Your cow will give them milk, transport, manure for growing crops, and a complete change in their community standing. Your gift also includes their training in animal husbandry and support to make a dairy business that’s truly sustainable.
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Best Seller!
This is a gift for many families, because everyone in a leprosyaffected village can share in the blessings of turning the village pond into a fish farm. Your Really Good Gift gives them their first stock of fish and food. Before long your gift will be a sustainable source of food and income for the whole village.
Vegetable Seed Hamper
$24
Best Seller!
This gift will provide a range of hardy seeds for fantastic vegetables, along with advice on how to grow a bumper crop. For a family left impoverished and hungry by the consequences of leprosy, this means a source of nutritious food and the chance to earn an income at a market stall.
Piglet
$92
Pigs are cheap to feed, easy to care for and don’t use much space – so they are a great blessing for poor families struggling with disabilities caused by leprosy. One piglet becomes a breeding sow and soon there are lots of pork and piglets to sell: food for the family and valuable income.
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Best Seller! A Trades Persons Toolkit
$40 Someone in poverty affected by leprosy might dream of a trade, but the price of tools is out of their reach. Your gift includes everything they need to start working and earning, along with really good training from the Leprosy Mission. You are giving them a productive career, plus a whole new standing in the eyes of their community. After his leprosy treatment, Samir received training in mechanics. The gift of a toolkit meant Samir could set up his own business and earn a living to support his family.
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