Pulse: FollowUp: “We Are Not Afraid to Say ‘Leprosy’”

Worse yet, our most loyal donors were leaving us at an alarming rate — our file shrank by a third. It would hardly be an overstatement to say ALM was in a death spiral.

The road back
That was the situation when I joined the American Leprosy Missions in 1994. I lifted the ban on the word “leprosy” and brought back our name — American Leprosy Missions. We began again to tell the story of leprosy and the horrors it visits on those who have it.