COFFEE & CARE

Do something amazing.  Help a compassionate nurse share your love and care with people affected by leprosy at Anandaban hospital on the outskirts of Kathmandu in Nepal.  It costs just £44 to pay a Nepali nurse's salary for a week.

How to get started

Get some enthusiastic friends to help and involve the young people.  Everyone loves a coffee morning or how about an open garden?  Church lunches are always popular or maybe a breakfast or special after-church refreshments before the service.  How about a quiz night?  You could even challenge another church or hold a parish or circuit quiz.  Quiz packs with lots of ideas are available - just ask.  A firm favourite for colder months is a pudding evening.  Why not include a 'bring and buy' or plant stall? 

To make your Coffee and Care a success

Display the Coffee and Care poster - ask for more if you need them. Put the details in the church magazine and notice sheet and ask whoever does the notices to mention your event several times.

Mind still blank? 

Then why not ask other people for ideas or visit our website for more help and to see what other people have done.

Supporting Anandaban hospital in Nepal

Anandaban hospital, sitting high above Kathmandu, has been offering healing and hope for over 50 years.  Anandaban means 'Forest of Joy' and it certainly brings joy to people affected by leprosy.  Patients receive high quality free treatment to cure leprosy and for complications such as ulcers.  They are given surgery if necessary.  There is also a specialised self-care unit on the premises and counselling is provided for people traumatised by the exclusion and family break-up that leprosy so often causes.

Healing often begins in the hands of the nursing staff, whose acts of simple love transform hurting and rejected people.  As you support our Coffee and Care project you will be reaching across the world to join with them in sharing this extraordinary life changing love.  And when we do, lives are transformed.

Deepak and Pompa's story of hope

is inspirational.  When Deepak came to The Leprosy Mission hospital at Anandaban he was very depressed but received treatment and care.  He started attending the weekly fellowship meetings held by the Christian staff and which patients can attend if they choose to.  He says, 'I had been physically healed at the hospital but was not happy because spiritual and mental things in me were not healed.  I came to the weekly fellowship meetings and decided to become a Christian . . . and then I received the healing.'

Pompa made a similar choice.  She says, 'I was under a lot of depression because of stigma but after I became a Christian I forgot about the past.' Pompa and Deepak are now married.  They attend Bethsalam Maharajgunj Church in Kathmandu, where several other former patients also worship.