| History | |
| What is MALC | |
| Dr. Ruth Pfau Profile | |
| The Organisation | |
| Future Vision | |
| Networking | |
| Partners | |
| Glossary of Terms | |
| ELCP |
| HISTORY | |||||
| PIONEERS WHO MADE THE CHANGE | |||||
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Sister Berenice Vargas: Sister Berenice Vargas, a Mexican Pharmacist belonged to a religious Roman Catholic Congregation named Daughters of the Heart of Mary, and with this group, she came to Pakistan on 12th March 1955 on the invitation of the Archbishop of Karachi to help in the medical, health and social problems of the refugees living in camps after partition of India & Pakistan. Soon after, she started working for leprosy patients in a slum area near McLeod Road, known as Lepers’ Colony. |
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Sister Jeannine Geuns In 1962, a Belgian Nurse Jeannie Geuns joined the group of pioneers at McLoad Road Lepers’ Colony. She soon joined the religions congregation Daughters of the Heart of Mary and is staying since in Karachi. |
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Mother Doyle A teacher from America and a trained first Aid worker joined Sister Vargas at Lepers' Colony McLeod Road to serve Leprosy patients. With her talent for organization , she had soon made the best of the wooden hut serving as treatment centre. |
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Dr. Zarina Fazlebhoy In 1960 Dr. Zarina Fazlebhoy a Pakistani Dermatologist joined this female team of Pioneers and soon became an essential part of the Leprosy Team. Her home became the meeting place, her car the official transport and her children the ‘Little Helpers’. She spent the rest of her life together with Sr. Vargas and Dr. Ruth Pfau, treating Leprosy patients, teaching health workers and awakening the Pakistani officials and public to their responsibility towards leprosy patients. |
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Dr. Ruth Pfau Ruth Katherina Martha Pfau, a Germen Doctor came to Pakistan in 1960. Here she visited the McLoad Road Lepers’ Colony and decided to stay with Sister Vargas’s team to serve the un-served. |
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