Modified Leprosy Elimination Campaign Project
CFI was named after Culion Island in Palawan, which historically was at one time the world’s largest colony for persons affected by…
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Management of Impairment Disease
Improving community knowledge and support for people living with impairment and chronic disease.
Project approach
Designed for local realities
Improving community knowledge and support for people living with impairment and chronic disease.
CFI works alongside local government, civil society, community leaders, and technical partners. Together, we adapt implementation to the people and places involved, strengthen local capacity, and build pathways for work to continue beyond a project cycle.
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Transforming the “Island of the Living Dead” to the “Island of Hope”
Culion, situated in Palawan, Philippines, was designated as a leprosarium in the early 1900s, resulting in the segregation of leprosy patients and…
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