June 2024. We had an extraordinary visit from SHF: Takahiro Nanri, Chiemi Sanga and Yuta Takashima visited us with a full programme. The main reason for the visit was SHF’s scholar programme, for which we had selected four candidates, whom we now interviewed together with the SHF team to select two of them as scholars for one year. The interviews all went very well and we had great difficulty in selecting 2 of them. In the end it was decided to support all 4 in their desire for education and development. Congratulations to all 4: Hasan, Fichrin, Kasmawati and Nuni!
The second part of the programme was a visit to Pangkep and Maros, 2 districts where we support young people with leprosy with the help of SHF. In Pangkep, Chiemi and Yuta participated in a capacity training for the young people, not only with participants from Maros and Pangkep but also from Barru and Bantaeng, to share experiences and motivation.
On the last day, we visited some of the young people who had not taken part in the training, mostly because they are suffering from reactions. Here the SHF team was able to observe “peer support” life, namely how the PerMaTa team provided motivation, advice and concrete help to these people at home.
We hope we were able to show SHF how important and enormously effective their financial support is, how many people we can help with it to give them hope of returning to a normal life.
Thank you, SHF!