Community Programme  -  2 Programme arms:

• Community Based Empowerment for Rehabilitation (CBER)
• Socio-Economic Rehabilitation (SER)

An outreach service focusing on empowerment of communities through participative rehabilitation.

Covering 4 Districts of Nepal (2.5 million people) for the Government's National Leprosy Programme

Includes the highest leprosy prevalence Districts in Nepal.

• Dhanusha
• Mahottari
• Sarlahi
• Sindhuli

Both arms focus on community participation through Self Help Groups (SHGs).

Both arms are mostly supported through project funding such as ALM, SMHF, TLM (see Projects section):

• RECLAIM
• VAP

Community Based Empowerment & Rehabilitation (CBER)  -  2013 achievements

• Self Help Groups (SHGs) – formation, mobilization and support  -  81
• Members in the 81 SHGs  -   2154
• Self Care Cells (embryonic SHGs)  -  60
• Members in 60 SCCs  -  530
• Patients attending 12 Community POID-clinics (prevention/management of impairment and disability from leprosy)   -  3217
• Wide range of skills and rights-based trainings aimed at stigma elimination ((see RECAIM Project)
• Wide range of primary health and development activities in selected poor villages (see VAP Project)​

Socio-Economic Rehabilitation (SER)  -  2013 achievements

• Subsistence support   -  24
• Pensions provided  -  19
• Land Purchased for landless  -  2
• Houses Built  -  23
• Houses Repaired  -  10
• Scholarships provided (for primary, secondary, college & SLC  exams) - leprosy-affected children in leprosy-affected families   -  53
• Vocational Training
• Counseling  -  106
• Microcredit Scheme
• Animal Purchases  -  33
• Rickshaws
• Clothes distribution  -  25
• Sewing Machine  -  5
• Water supply, wells dug, hand pumps installed  -  9

Community Programme

The first bucket of clean water from the new 90ft - deep well 

Houses in a desperatley poor leprosy-affected community urgently needing rebuilding.

Sundapur SELF HELP GROUP

Village women's group - learning to write

Microcredit Scheme -  They got a goat, and now  already have 3 

SLIDE SHOW  -  Caring outreach for a leprosy affected family in their village

Microcredit Scheme -  He got a buffalo, which is in high demand for farm-work

and brings him income and respect