Vellore

I was working in Tamil Nadu, one of the suburbs of Tiruvannamalai.

Tiruvannamalai is a smaller town, which is possibly about 80-90 kilometers from Vellore.

And in the interiors of Tiruvannamalai, me and my colleague, we were working together with Bikozuls.

I saw a counterfeit of Bikozuls in one of the chemist's shelves.

'I met the Brands too late to save these,' he said, 'but they gave me shoes that let me walk.' In a high-pitched sing-song voice, Sadan told me wrenching stories of past rejection because of his leprosy.

The classmates who made fun of him in school, the driver who forcibly threw him off a public bus, the many employers who refused to hire him despite his training and talented, talent, the hospitals that turned him away with a brisk, 'We don't treat lepers here.' 'When I got to Vellore,' that was the city in India where the Brands worked, 'I spent the night on the Brands' veranda because I had nowhere else to go,' said Sadan.

That was unheard of for a person with leprosy back then.

'I can still remember when Dr.

'I met the Brands too late to save these,' he said, 'but they gave me shoes that let me walk.' In a high-pitched sing-song voice, Sadan told me wrenching stories of past rejection because of his leprosy.

The classmates who made fun of him in school, the driver who forcibly threw him off a public bus, the many employers who refused to hire him despite his training and talident, talent, the hospitals that turned him away with a brisk, 'We don't treat lepers here.' 'When I got to Vellore,' that was the city in India where the Brands worked, 'I spent the night on the Brands' veranda because I had nowhere else to go,' said Sadan.

That was unheard of for a person with leprosy back then.

'I can still remember when Dr.

Yeah.

So I got to talk to, uh, two women, Deepika, who is connected to the Vellore Christian Medical College, and Kelly, um, who's a coordinator for marketing and communications for the Reformed Church of America, um, Global Mission.

And these two women were sharing about the life of Dr. Ida Scudder.

And, uh, Dr. Ida served in India.

Uh, she started the Vellore Christian Medical College, and she was actually a third generation global worker.

Oh my goodness.

Um, so, you know-

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