Jaya Reddy braved abandonment to care for leprosy patients for 20 Years
Jaya Reddy has been working with leprosy patients for over 20 years. Here's the story of the brave and caring woman from Delhi’s Anand Parbat colony A total of 52 households dwell in Delhi's Anand Parbat region, which is home to around 30 people with leprosy. Society treats these families as outsiders, and any contact with them is frowned upon - all because they are leprosy patients. It is difficult to comprehend that this widespread isolation of leprosy sufferers by society remains in twenty-first-century India. However, Jaya Reddy is a true guardian angel for all of these families. Jaya has an innate ability to comprehend and connect with their plight, having been raised by parents who have leprosy. A woman from Anand Parbat, Anita, says, "Jaya didi provides us rations and food on all such occasions. Jaya didi even provides the literature that my children require for school. " Jaya's father served the community selflessly till his death a ...