Created for World Leprosy Awareness Day: 25th January 2015 :- “Helping Hands Challenge” organised by The Leprosy Mission to care for leprosy patients at Nepal’s Anandaban Hospital. The donation of £50.00 from Glasgow City Soroptimist Club and Glasgow Caledonian University in response to the World Leprosy Day 2015 campaign will help to bring life-changing reconstructive surgery to affected people. Leprosy is a mildly-infectious disease caused by a bacillus called Mycobacterium leprae – a relative of the TB bacillus. It occurs where there is dirty water, bad nutrition and poor standards of living, meaning people’s immune systems are not strong and they are unable to fight the disease. According to the World Health Organisation there are 17 neglected tropical diseases, e.g. Buruli ulcer is one of these and it’s caused by infection with Mycobacterium ulcerans, an organism which belongs to the family of bacteria that causes tuberculosis and leprosy.