Leprosy Center

Thursday we headed up to Titagarh which is Mother Teresa's leper colony. They make the MC sister's sarris as well as wooden chairs for the mentally and physically handicapped patients at Nabo Jibon where I work. I was actually expecting it to be a bit more of a shock than it actually was. I had previously seen "The Human Experience" which captures a few scenes of a leper colony in Africa with seemingly horrible cases. Today at Titagarh I came to find out that leprosy, if diagnosed correctly and early, is curable. Because of that along with the fact that they are very well taken care of, most of the people that we met didn't seem to have that severe of cases, which was nice to see.

The rest of the morning was a bit crazy as our bus was held up in a traffic jam, which we later came to find out was partially due to a political rally. There were tons of people on the streets! Because it was taking so long, we ended up getting off the bus to walk back to our hotel. Luckily it was monsooning at the time! It took us a while to get back as the many of the side streets were flooded! A few Indian kids saw us taking pictures on the way back so we have a few snapshots of little Indian children in the flooded streets of Kolkatta.

Peace,

Kyle