Banana Farms

Leprosy Village, Dongguan

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March 31st 2007
I spent the weekend of 31 Mar on a trip to a Leprosy village in Dongguan with a charity group who occasionally visits these villages and does some rennovation works. This time, I was mainly involved in helping paint a building where the Leprosy villagers live. Due to the nature of the disease, paitents of Leprosy were often placed in isolation because people were afraid of the transmission of ... read more

Asia » China » Guangdong

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more