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This image was created on Saturday April 29th 2006 on the outskirts of Kolkata (Calcutta) India (state of West Bengal). Please see full details about this photograph below: Missionaries of Charity's Gandhiji Prem Nivas Leprosy Centre, Titagarh where leprosy patients, live, get treatment, and work producing cloth for Mother Teresa's Sisters, making prosthetics for leprosy patients and learning how to live and work with their disibilities. The facility, located near a train track (because in the past people with leprosy were required to stay off the roadways and only trave near railroad tracks) Patients learn agriculture, animal husbandry, carpentry and tailoring. There is a school for children a hospital and operating theater and a diagonostic clinic. Started my Mother Teresa in 1958

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