What is Leprosy?
Leprosy is a curable disease that leads to dreadful disfigurement in people who are not treated on time.
What does the Leprosy Mission do?
Our dream is a world without leprosy. We are 
working to insure that everyone who has
leprosy gets treatment until they are fully
cured. This means that we spend a lot of time
teaching people how to recognise and treat
leprosy in its early stages. We teach patients
how to care for themselves so that they can
prevent disabilities. The Mission runs treatment
facilities in conjunction with provisional health
services. We are also concerned with the
lifelong needs of people who suffer from the
ghastly after-effects of leprosy such as stigma
and unemployment. We provide Christian
counselling and teaching and offer programmes
to provide our clients with life skills. About
three thousand people need help because of
the devastating trauma of leprosy.
How will my bequest help?
The Leprosy Mission employs people like
nursing sisters and field workers to find and
treat patients. Their work involves extensive
travelling under arduous conditions, often in
remote rural areas. Most of our income is spent
on salaries and travelling costs. We also
produce and distribute educational materials. It
costs R60 000 a year to keep a worker in the
field. A set of pamphlets cost R5 000. A new
ambulance in the region of R90 000. Bequests
play a vital role in helping us to meet these big
expences. Your bequest will ensure that we
are able to reach out to people in great need,
bringing them lasting hope and healing.
Codicil
You'd like to leave a bequest to the Leprosy Mission, but you're not too sure how to word it? The
following format is all you need to add to your existing Will to insure that your bequest reaches us safely.
This is a Codicil to the last Will and Testament executed by me
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(your full names)
on ----------------------------------------------
(date of present will)
I give and Bequeath the sum of
R ------------------------------------------------------------
(and in words)
OR
I give and bequeath ------------------ percent of the residue of my estate to the Leprosy Mission
(Southern Africa), whose present physical address is 38 Tenth Road, Kew, Johannesburg and
whose present postal address is PO Box 46002 Orange Grove 2119 and whose present Executive
director id Mr. Petrus Johannes Laubscher and I declare that the receipt by the said Mission shall
be sufficient discharge in respect of such payment. In all other respects I confirm my Last Will and
Testament.
In witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand at -------------------------------(date)
on this the -------------- day of ------------------ 2 ---------- in the presence of the subscribing
witnesses, all being present at the same time and signing in the presence of one another.
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