Solidarité Internationale pour la Défense de Lo-sheng- 楽生院を救え！国際連帯 - 搶救樂生國際鬥陣

By IDEA

Listed below are some of the places that have chosen to correct injustices of the past by developing creative solutions to enable people separated from society year ago to live out their lives in the places they have come to regard as home.

• Hawaii: The United States Congress designated Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement a National Historical Park in 1980, for the education and inspiration of present and future generations with a provision that the residents may live out their lives there. The Hawaii State Department of Health, the U.S. National Park Service, and Ka ‘Ohana O Kalaupapa (an organization made up of Kalaupapa residents, family members and other interested person) are working together to ensure that this will happen.
  
  In addition, the residents of Kalaupapa worked with the government and private organizations to develop a senior citizen housing complex at Hale Mohalu, the site of a former residential facility in Honolulu for people who had leprosy, which would also preserve a historic chaulmoogra tree and the historic nature of the property.



• England: St. Giles Home was adapted for use by Springboard Housing, which provides housing for people with special needs. This enabled the last residents of St. Giles to live out their lives in this, their home.



• Romania: With support from the European Union, a home for the elderly has been built on the land next to Tichilesti Leprosy Hospital as a means of integrating the residents and enabling them to live out their lives in this, their home.



• Portugual: Rovisco Pais Hospital has been adapted for use as a Rehabilitation Center which also allows those who were sent there because of leprosy to live out their lives there.



• Spain: The Sanatorio San Francisco da Borja in Fontilles, Spain, has considered different plans for integrating the elderly and people with chronic health problems who have nowhere else to go as a means of meeting their needs and enabling those who were sent there due to leprosy to live out their lives in this, their home.



• Japan: Individuals in Japan who have had Hansen’s Disease have joined together with others to create an internationally renowned museum on the grounds of Tama Zenshoen National Sanatorium. In addition, Mr. Yasuji Hirasawa, a resident of Tama Zenshoen, has designated the trees at Tama Zenshoen, most of which were planted by the residents themselves, as a “Human Rights Forest” for the education and inspiration of present and future generations.