Your impact · Annual Report 2026
Leprosy defeated, lives transformed.
Thank you. This year 15,311 supporters, including more than 4,500 first-time givers, helped us support 11 significant projects in six countries.
Every Gift of Love and every purchase from our shop helped screen children, treat leprosy, train health workers and open doors to education and work.
Your impact in action
What your support made possible
July 2025 – June 2026, with our partners in Nepal, India, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Nigeria and Papua New Guinea.
- 17,784children screened for leprosy
- 202,605people screened for skin diseases
- 286people diagnosed with leprosy and started on treatment
- 1,983assistive devices provided
- 2,247health workers trained
- 5,833,494people reached by radio and TVHealth education in Nigeria
- 772,633community members in leprosy education
- 189students supported with educationFrom primary school to university
Tarsih lives in a leprosy-friendly village in West Java. Photo: Daniel Christiansz
Indonesia · Leprosy Friendly Villages
Cured, and welcomed home
When Tarsih was diagnosed with leprosy, fear and self-stigma kept her apart from her community. Today she is cured, and attitudes in her village are changing.
In Kuningan, West Java, our partners persuaded local government to let villages fund leprosy work: a first for Indonesia.
Now my neighbours welcome me because they know that I have recovered from leprosy. Previously they were scared of me.
- 20 villages approved to fund leprosy work
- 17 villages already funding it
Our goal
Triple Zero by 2035
Every project we support moves us closer to these globally recognised goals.
Zero transmission
Stopping the spread
Cases among children are a sign leprosy is still spreading, so screening children is key to breaking transmission.
Zero disability
Preventing disability
Finding leprosy early prevents disability. We also provide self-care training, assistive devices, reconstructive surgery and artificial limbs.
Zero discrimination
Ending stigma
We educate communities, challenge unjust laws and help people affected by leprosy build pathways to fullness of life.
Dr Utane, a dermatologist with TLM Nigeria, at a health outreach in Lafiya. Photo: Jeff Chukwu
Nigeria · Health care closer to home
Reaching remote communities
Monthly outreach camps bring screening, treatment and health education to rural communities where clinics are hours away, and look out for other skin diseases too.
- 93,391 people given health education
- 9,593 people treated at outreach camps
- 1,300+ people found with other skin diseases
Students learn how leprosy spreads, and how it is cured, through an adapted ludo game.
Education
Learning that changes futures
From primary school to university, students facing leprosy, disability and poverty were supported to keep learning, with mentoring and counselling alongside.
Bharat spent eight years in and out of hospital. This year he graduated in computing and has been offered a government scholarship for his Masters.
- 189 students supported
- 28,676 children taught about leprosy
- 136 farmers trained in climate-smart farming
- 250 people trained in financial literacy
Stories of change
Lives transformed
Gifts of Love · Nepal
A goat helped bleat the odds
Give a goatKishor, 66, completed leprosy treatment thanks to Gifts of Love. Financial Business Training and a goat then helped him build a small herd that now supports his family.
Fair Trade · India
Meaningful work for Divya
Born deaf and unable to attend school, Divya trained with POWHER, an artisan group our shop supports. She now holds a government-recognised certificate in jute making.
Shop Fair Trade gifts“I want to come and work here every day because I am happy.”
Nigeria
Six women. Six trikes.
Six generous women funded motorised trikes that work as mini ambulances in rural Nigeria. Outreach camps gave 93,391 people health education and 9,593 people treatment.
The Leprosy Mission Shop
Shop to Stop Leprosy
Every purchase from our social enterprise creates positive change for people and communities in Australia and around the world.
- $123,351.31spent with World Fair Trade artisan producers
- $34,757.58spent with artisans affected by leprosy and disability
- $359,030.72spent with Australian local businesses
- 47%of our products made by overseas artisans
Where the money goes
Funds to the countries we support
77% of our spending went to international aid and development.
- Nepal $996,075
- Timor-Leste $674,703
- India $535,640
- Indonesia $410,025
- Nigeria $314,642
- Papua New Guinea $52,632
Source: audited financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2026.
Be part of the next chapter
Every Gift of Love and every purchase from our shop helps defeat leprosy and transform lives.
