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  What is Leprosy? Leprosy is an infectious disease that causes severe, disfiguring skin sores and nerve damage in the arms, legs, and skin areas around your body. Leprosy has been around since ancient times. Outbreaks have affected people on every continent. But leprosy, also known as Hanson’s disease , isn’t that contagious. You can catch it only if you come into close and repeated contact with nose and mouth droplets from someone with untreated leprosy. Children are more likely to get leprosy than adults. Today, about 208,000 people worldwide are infected with leprosy, according to the World Health Organization, most of them in Africa and Asia. Leprosy Symptoms ·        Leprosy primarily affects your skin and nerves outside your brain and spinal cord, called the peripheral nerves. It may also strike your eyes and the thin tissue lining the inside of your nose. ·        The main symptom of leprosy is disfigurin...

During out B.Ed internship at St. John's Girls Higher Secondary School, Nazareth for about 16 weeks. There were 11 members for B.Ed training joined  and we all decided to plant some trees which would be a remembrance life long in the school campus. We planted vadumai and arasa maram in the school campus. The trees list a lot of benefit to the soceity.  Trees  provide flowers, fruit, fodder and fuel to communities and living creatures, offer shade to nomads and their livestock, give shelter to birds and animals, prevent soil erosion and flooding, improve water catchment, generate oxygen, reduce pollution and benefit posterity while  decarbonisin g the atmosphere.