Sign up today and TLM Canada will send you a complete package: a leader’s booklet, posters, sponsorship forms, a video and a supply of mitts for your group to wear. The leader will hand out the materials and each group member will approach family, friends and church members for sponsorships.
On the date of your event, each participant will wear a mitt on their dominant hand for 12 hours. After 12 hours, you will celebrate and the funds raised will be sent to TLM Canada.
What you do during the 12 hours is totally up to your group. Check the web site for event ideas and games to keep you busy. Just don’t forget to come together at the end for your final wrap-up celebration!You can call Gisele Gedeon, your Cured not Cursed Representative at 905-886-2885 or 1-888-LEPROSY (1-888-537-7679). Or email her at curednotcursed @ leprosy.ca (remove spaces).
Yes. Our charitable registration number is 11924 1990 RR0001. We have been working in Canada since 1892, and internationally since 1876.
Yes, we issue tax receipts for all tax-creditable donations over $10 from individuals. We usually issue annual receipts at the end of the year. We will also issue monthly receipts if you prefer.
Our heritage is Christian, but we are not tied to any one denomination. We have people from all parts of the Christian family working for TLM. We minister in the name of Jesus Christ to the physical, mental and spiritual needs of leprosy sufferers around the world.
The Leprosy Mission Canada is part of an international partnership of over 45 countries. Some countries primarily raise funds, some primarily implement programs for people with leprosy and some countries do both. The funds raised are used to help people affected by leprosy in approximately 30 countries, primarily in Asia and Africa. The money you give is normally spent in the service of those with leprosy by TLM staff in the front line of care.
Yes, there are approximately 500 people in Canada diagnosed with leprosy. They are not infectious or a public health concern, and are being looked after by our health care system in the tropical disease units of major urban hospitals. Leprosy is not a highly infectious disease.
Yes, the cure was discovered in 1982. It is called MDT (Multi Drug Therapy) and is very effective. Our goal is to find leprosy early and cure it before it starts to do its awful damage. If leprosy goes untreated it will destroy the nerves in the hands, feet, and other extremities, which leads to deformities and disabilities such as the loss of use of fingers, feet and other parts of the body. Once treated, patients with leprosy quickly become non-infectious. For more information, check out the About Leprosy section of this website.
The cost of a cure is about $350.
Approximately 80% of donations given to cure and to care for people with leprosy goes to supporting the programs that help people with leprosy.
Approximately 20% of the $350 amount goes towards the administrative work -- ensuring that you receive your receipts on time, answering your questions and managing the gifts you give, to make sure they reach the communities of greatest need. We also produce television specials and written material to help raise a greater awareness of the real need.
The $350 includes the costs associated with finding and identifying individuals with leprosy, testing and diagnosing the specific type of leprosy, providing the correct medical treatment including any additional medication required, distributing the medication and checking on patients every month, treating any reactions to the medication or additional symptoms of the disease and follow-up with patients for 2-3 years after treatment is completed. The cost of the actual medicine making up the Multi Drug Therapy is covered by the generous support of the Novartis Foundation.
