Every year, on World Leprosy Day, Yohei Sasakawa makes a Global Appeal to end stigma and discrimination against people affected by leprosy. He has been doing this for 13 years with the same passion with which he first took up the cause of leprosy and the ostracism associated with it.
Sasakawa is chairman of the Nippon Foundation. Since 2001, he has been the WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination. He was conferred the International Gandhi Peace Prize by the Government of India in 2006.
This year’s Global Appeal, made from New Delhi on 28 January, had added. . .