Combating Leprosy and Tuberculosis

9.3 MIO €

Funding: 9.3 MIO €

For fifty years the German Leprosy and Tuberculosis Relief Association (DAHW) has worked in the developing world on behalf of people suffering from leprosy and tuberculosis. In this work, carried out together with partners on the ground, the individual person stands at the centre — irrespective of religion, nationality or race.

Portrait of Dr. Ruth Pfau
Dr. Ruth Pfau
(† 10 August 2017)

The aim of the DAHW's work is the holistic, lasting recovery of the individual through medical treatment and social rehabilitation, including vocational training and microcredit programmes.

Together with the DAHW we have, over the past 25 years, supported the German physician and religious sister Dr. Ruth Pfau in her "campaign to combat leprosy in Pakistan". Her base of operations is a hospital in Karachi, the "Marie Adelaide Leprosy Center".

Total funding to date amounted to EUR 7.5 million.

Overview

Projects of the Rexroth Foundation

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Agricultural projects in Brazil

As early as 1975, we made our first contact with Father Hans Henning in Brazil.

Funding:
1.1 MIO €

Hospital and social centre in Zambia and Zimbabwe

The hospital in Zambia is currently being built at a cost of EUR 250,000 and is funded in equal part by the Georg Ludwig Rexroth Foundation.

Funding:
200 T €

Rainforest hospital
Tava-i / Paraguay

Our project "Cerro Mbatovy" — "Rising Earth" — set out to improve medical and hygiene care in Paraguay, in Tava-i in the Caazapa department, in the rainforest near the Brazilian border.

Funding:
5.0 MIO €