Social project for leprosy patients and many other people

“Shanti Sewa Griha” in Kathmandu began in 1992 as leprosy station with 34 patients – today it is a wonderful, holistic social project which helps more than 1,100 people.

It all started still some more years ago. In the mid of the 80s the former Waldorf mother Marianne Grosspietsch went to Nepal to meet with her godchild in a leprosy ghetto. She was so overwhelmed with the misery she saw that she arranged for 31 children to be adopted to Germany. Some years later she went back and saw that the conditions were no better for the leprosy patients. She tried to do something to improve things for the patients, but the Nepalese operators refused to cooperate in favour of the patients.

So she started her own leprosy station in 1989 which became the foundation “Shanty” in 1992. Shanty has grown all through the years and is now not only a leprosy, but a big social project. Shanti is open for all ill people in need of urgent care who do not find help anywhere else.

The social station of Shanti (with hospital, workshops, kindergarten) is located next to the largest Hindu sanctuary of Nepal, the temple of Pashupatinath in Kathmandu on the Baghmati river. About 9 kilometres away, in Budhanilkantha, there is a second station with workshops, a school, ecological agriculture and a number of self-built houses giving shelter for 197 people.

More than 1100 people are taken care of in Shanti. The cost is very high, so they have to raise 25.000 € every month.

More Information:
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Detailed article: 15 Jahre "Shanti" (6/2007).

Contact

Shanti Sewa Griha
Gaushala / Kathmandu
Nepal

phone: +977 1 4492 412
E-mail: shantiseva(at)wlink.com.np
www.shanti-leprahilfe.de

or
Shanti Leprahilfe Dortmund e.V.
phone/fax: +49 231 736 914
E-mail: info(at)shanti-leprahilfe.de