Lukas’ Story: A Life Transformed by Compassion In the quiet hills of Deviyakurichi, a leprosy colony in Tamil Nadu, lives Lukas—a man whose story reflects the very heart of Embrace a Village. Twenty years ago, Lukas and his wife came to the colony seeking refuge after...
In a small village in the Salem district of Tamil Nadu, Bhanu, a 7th-grade student, carries dreams far bigger than her circumstances. As the granddaughter of a leprosy survivor, Bhanu has grown up surrounded by poverty and stigma—but also by a quiet strength that...