Nepal Leprosy Trust
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| Abbreviation | NLT |
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| Formation | 1972 |
| Legal status | Registered in England as a charity (No. 1081952) and as a company limited by guarantee (No. 4046961) and in Nepal as a non-governmental organisation (NGO). The Trust is also registered as a charity in the Republic of Ireland.[1] |
| Headquarters | Richmond, London, United Kingdom |
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Region served | Nepal |
| Affiliations | Make Poverty History campaign |
| Website |
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The Nepal Leprosy Trust (NLT) is a Christian charity, based in Richmond, London, that provides services to people affected by leprosy in Nepal.[2] It is a member of the Make Poverty History campaign.
It was founded in 1972 by Eileen Lodge, a British nurse, who had emigrated to Nepal in the 1950s to work with the International Nepal Fellowship (INF). The Nepal office headquarter is in Tutepani, Lalitpur-14. In 1996 it established Lalgadh Leprosy Services Centre, a hospital in Lalgadh, Dhanusa district in the southeast part of the country.
The NLT Kathmandu office shelters leprosy-affected people (and other differently-able, poor and marginalized), provides them skill-based/capacity-building training, and employs them in its handicraft production project, which produces high-quality handicrafts, especially for the export market. NLT is also a member of World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO), WFTO-Asia, and Fair Trade Group (FTG) Nepal.
References
- ↑ "The Organisation". Nepal Leprosy Trust. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
- ↑ "About Us". Nepal Leprosy Trust. Retrieved 14 September 2013.