
International: Nepal Leprosy Trust
UK-based Christian agency that provides services to people affected by leprosy in the Country of Nepal.
The Christian Fellowship in Richmond links with the country of Nepal go back to the 1950’s, when Eileen Lodge, a British nurse emigrated to work with International Nepal Fellowship. Eileen founded Nepal Leprosy Trust (NLT) in 1972, with the aim of rehabilitating people who had been cured of leprosy. The stigma of this disease ostracises people from society. NLT has a factory/workshop and other programmes in Kathmandu, and in the 1990’s built Lalgadh Leprosy Services Centre. This centre now has 100 staff, coping with 50,000 out-patient visits per year and diagnosing 100 new leprosy patients every month. CFinR hosts a weekly NLT prayer meeting and provides space for the NLT UK head office, where most of the £400,000 needed each year to run the projects is generated. Current and former church members provide the majority of the NLT UK office team.