Annual Report 2005

Self-help efforts in Nepal A five-year-long project was successfully completed in Nepal in 2005. It had been supported together with the International Nepal Fellowship (INF). The project was realised with co-funding of the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development. Thanks to DAHWs support, local organisations and self-help groups are integrating formerly excluded leprosy sufferers and other disabled persons within society. Moreover, we succeeded in providing more than 2,000 people affected by Leprosy and other disabled persons with targeted social and economic help. As well as providing loans for small business ventures, this support has included: agricultural training, teaching arts and crafts, providing further education, on-the-job experiences and arranging work placements. A project planned from the middle of 2006 to the middle of 2009 is intended to both strengthen and develop community-based re-integration.