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Hidden Lives

Leprosy Mission Australia

This podcast contains stories of people we"ve met during our work with The Leprosy Mission.The Leprosy Mission Australia works with people with leprosy, other neglected tropical diseases and disabilities. They are often the most marginalised, vulnerable and hidden from the rest of society. We run health improvement projects, often in rural and remote villages where we get to meet many people who have amazing life experiences to share.Yes, leprosy is still a thing but it doesn"t have to be. If you

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36. Putting on a brave face

Hidden Lives ·

2026/01/28

Send us a text 16 year old Sujan looks like he's 8 years old. A few days out from heart surgery to fix a hole in his heart, Sujan receives bad news that a suspicious patch on his skin is leprosy and surgery is cancelled. Having waited in hope for over 8 years for surgery, this news is devastating to Sujan.

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17:54

35. Unexpected kindness

Hidden Lives ·

2026/01/21

Send us a text Growing up with an abusive alcoholic father, Janam had no choice but to start working when he was 9 years old. He had barely been outside his village. When he started to get sick, he didn't know how to get to the hospital but kindness came from unexpected places.

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20:06

34. When illness robs us of a place to belong

Hidden Lives ·

2026/01/14

Send us a text When Khagisara started to show signs of leprosy, the village she had grown up in, turned their backs on her. Forced to leave, Khagisara and her young family ended up living in the forest in a makeshift shelter with no money and no food.

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25:44

33. The joy of being a fair trade artisan

Hidden Lives ·

2025/12/17

Send us a text 46 year old Tina has know of illness and disability ever since she can remember. Finding a workplace where she felt she belonged was incredibly difficult. Learn how fair trade social enterprises and supportive workplaces can transform lives, like it did for Tina.

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18:40

32. Shakti - Power in a name

Hidden Lives ·

2025/12/10

Send us a text Shakti has been in and out of hospital ever since she can remember. However, this hasn't stopped her from getting good grades and working hard towards her dreams of becoming a doctor. But one eventful visit to the hospital changed everything.

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20:56

31. Satendra's story - Why me?

Hidden Lives ·

2025/12/03

Send us a text When 11 year old Satendra found light coloured patches on his skin, it kickstarted a long journey of treatment that disrupted every part of his life. Through it all, the question on Satendra's mind was, why me? Why am I sick when no one else is?

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16:41

A child's perspective

Hidden Lives ·

2025/11/26

12 year old Disha loves her home in the rolling green hills, full of colourful flowers in spring and hearing the birds chirp outside her bedroom window. But other people may see her home as a busy sterile place, where sick people come for treatment. A place smelling of disinfectant, different medications and full of medical equipment. Disha has lived all her life in a hospital. Send us a text message to let us know how we're going!

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28:22

29. Homeless

Hidden Lives ·

2025/11/19

Even before Amar knew what his diagnosis was, the symptoms had already isolated him from his family and friends, leaving him homeless and living under a bridge. When an opportunity to get free treatment and free accommodation appeared, Amar didn't want it, too afraid as to what people might say or do when they saw him. Send us a text message to let us know how we're going!

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18:29

28. Kamal's journey - curse or disease?

Hidden Lives ·

2025/10/29

When small patches started to appear on his face, 8 year old Kamal was told he was cursed by a snake god. 4 months of animal sacrifices and rituals didn't take the curse away. By the time Kamal arrived at the hospital, his face was covered in red patches, so swollen, he could barely open his eyes. Send us a text message to let us know how we're going!

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27. No money, no honey, thus innovation was born

Hidden Lives ·

2025/10/22

Prem discovered a hidden talent when he attended bee keeping training. Buzzing with ideas and excitement from his training, Prem ventured into the jungle to catch his first wild bee hive and he hasn't looked back since. Send us a text message to let us know how we're going!

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26. The worst rejection of all

Hidden Lives ·

2025/10/15

Mina was studying at university when she first started losing strength in her hands. It got so bad, Mina ended up in a wheelchair, with no strength left to walk. Having to go through treatment whilst studying for university exams is hard, but it's even harder when your friends no longer speak to you after you tell them about your diagnosis. Send us a text message to let us know how we're going!

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16:04

25. An unlikely superhero

Hidden Lives ·

2025/10/01

For the last 35 years, Pratima has been working as a community health volunteer, educating her community on good health practices, delivering vaccinations and health checks. She views her job with pride and she is well respected in her community but it was not always like this. When Pratima first started, people did not welcome her, they would shut the door in her face or hide in their homes when she came to deliver health checks. Send us a text message to let us know how we're going!

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24. The worth of a girl

Hidden Lives ·

2025/09/24

When we first visited Ritu at home her, she peered at us through a hole in the wall of her house, too shy to come out to meet the strangers who had turned up in her village. Ritu grew up in a community where men and women have set roles, where reputation is linked to how well each performances their roles. When disease strikes, it threatens to destroy their reputations. Send us a text message to let us know how we're going!

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23. Ignorance is bliss...Or is it?

Hidden Lives ·

2025/09/17

At 12 years old, Rina had never heard of leprosy when she was diagnosed with it. Diagnosis is a complicated process and the medical journey to a cure takes a long time. Rina was simply happy to take the medication without really knowing what the disease was about. Is it better to know or not know about the disease you have? Send us a text message to let us know how we're going!

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24:27

22. An ancient disease in a young body

Hidden Lives ·

2025/09/10

13 year old Rhitik found a small cut on his big toe. He thought nothing of this, expecting it will heal soon. But 6 months later, the wound hadn't healed. Instead it had gotten bigger, an infection had set in and soon the infection had gone right down to the bone. His doctors had no idea what was happening. Send us a text message to let us know how we're going!

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24:18

21. A second chance to learn

Hidden Lives ·

2025/09/03

When her father passed away, Aarati's mum worked hard to keep Aarati and her brother at school but financial pressures mean that Aarati had to drop out of school to support the family. Now at 16 years old, Aarati has a chance to go back to school. She wants to pick up where she left off in Year 6 and even though she's older now, her determination has not left her and she still has big dreams. Send us a text message to let us know how we're going!

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28:06

20. A life of pain

Hidden Lives ·

2025/08/27

Born into a farming family, 40 year old Durga learnt how to farm the land and grow her own food. However, when she was 7 years old, she started to lose strength in her legs and small tumors started to grow all over her body. Send us a text message to let us know how we're going!

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27:40

19. A little entrepreneur

Hidden Lives ·

2025/08/20

Down many bumpy dirt roads and fields of wheat, a long way from the nearest town, at just 20 years old, Rupa has started a successful small business, but life has never been easy. As a child, Rupa developed a condition that made her look different to other people. Her relatives told her that nobody would ever want to marry her. Send us a text message to let us know how we're going!

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17 - When looks matter

Hidden Lives ·

2024/12/15

20 year old Rubina worked on a tea plantation plucking tea leaves to earn money to contribute to her large family consisting of her mother, father and 7 siblings.When a side of her face started to swell, droop, become paralysed and her eye couldn't close properly, Rubina was terrified. She didn't understand why this was happening to her and she was scared to let other people see her face like that.How can she go to work? But more importantly, who would want to marry her with her fa...

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16 - The power of a movie

Hidden Lives ·

2024/12/15

Ubed strongly believed in the power of traditional healings. When he started to see patches on his skin and felt tingling sensations over his body, naturally, he went to see a traditional healer to ask for help to remove the evil spirit plaguing his body. When this failed, Ubed didn't know who to turn to next.But one time, on a night out, Ubed saw a movie that changed his whole life.Send us a text message to let us know how we're going!

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