International Day of dignity, the voice of leprosy survivors: Don't be so disrespectful.

Yesterday was the 9th International Honor Day for dignity, but many people didn't know about it.

A special campaign was held yesterday at the North Gate Plaza of Green Lake Park, where leprosy survivors from all over Yunnan stood on stage to describe their mental journey after leprosy and expressed their desire to integrate into society. Before the end of the event, young volunteers took to the audience and embraced each leper to promote the elimination of leprosy discrimination and commemorate the 9th International Day of respect for dignity.

Leprosy survivors: Don't be so ashamed of us.

Wenshan Qiubei County Tian Xing Xiang six tang cun by nearby residents known as "Leprosy Village", because 30 villagers in the village have 42 people have leprosy. Six Tang village Tao village said that, on weekdays, basically no outsiders to the village. Yesterday, the village of more than six years of the first man out of a trip to Kunming, to the stage under the countless audience told the disease after all the hardships and sadness. In 1971, when the old man found leprosy, his children separated him. Passers-by pointing point and dislike, had let him have a dead idea. 36 years later, with the help of enthusiastic people, Zhang old cured leprosy. However, he still lives alone. "Many people dislike us, fear of contagion." Children come to visit me only once a year. "In the end," said the old man excitedly, "I hope we do not discriminate against us." ”

Volunteer to hold a regiment: Wish You Health

"The movement of life, care for the rehabilitation of leprosy" is the theme of this international Dignity Day, yesterday 15 o'clock, from the provincial CDC, leprosy representatives at home and abroad and Kunming, a number of love groups for the leprosy rehabilitation people carefully prepared a wonderful theatrical performances. Before the end of the commemoration, leprosy survivors received a special holiday gift. Volunteers from the Kunming Holding Group took to the audience and embraced each of the leprosy survivors and said, "Wish you Health" at the ears of every leper rehabilitation person. Several leprosy rehabilitation people face hug Regiment of enthusiastic hug, appear not adapt, strained hands flawless, an old man also shed tears of excitement. The old man choked and said, "We are accustomed to being discriminated against, and have never been so close to us." "The volunteers from the College of Education of the Normal university told reporters that the first time he went to leprosy village, he spent half a month to adjust his mentality." When he went to leprosy village, he turned over 7 mountains, because there was no way to get there. The village is full of people with leprosy, they are very lonely. Hole leap and they said a few more words, the old man felt "than his son still kiss." Hole Leap said, "live in Leprosy village 20 days is the most profound thing I remember, it let me know that people should be equal, should respect each other." ”

The origins of the International Honor Day

In the the 1920s, a group of Americans diagnosed with leprosy (Hansen's disease) were forced to isolate and rename their families, concentrating on Louisiana Carvill. The local government initially promised that they could live for a long time, but more than 70 years later, the U.S. government informed some Carvill residents that they would have to move before July and that other residents would have to stay for another three years. March 11, 1999 1:00, from around the world, several other states and local people concerned about leprosy in the United States at the gate of the Carvillhansen Disease Center, a petition to President Clinton, asked the government to respect the lives of Carvill residents. In support of Carvill's actions, the International Ideal Association has designated March 11 each year as the "Honor Day". (Reporter Maote)