Kwasi Boakye was 8 years old when he was brought to the Reconstructive Plastic Surgery and Burns Unit in Accra in April 2005. Buruli Ulcer had started near his eye...

Blewu Casshius was 21 at the time of his surgery in 2003. He worked with his father as a farmer in an area near Accra where the leprosy related and...

Kwame was aged 6 when he was badly injured in a road traffic accident near Accra in February 2006. He was dragged along the road by a car, exposing the...

Isatu Tulla is a seven year old girl who lives with the mother in a village near Makeni, in the forest. She does not go to school because their earnings...

Douda Kamara is a six-year old boy growing up in Sierra Leone. When he was younger, he burned his hands quite badly – the kind of injury which happens to...

Fatmata is 33 and lives in Sierra Leone. She was born with cleft lip and palate, which were never treated as there were never the facilities in Sierra Leone to...

Mary Okine, aged 8, lives in an area near Accra where the tropical disease Buruli Ulcer is endemic. When we met her, bacteria had removed most of the skin from...

Amekoudi is a young man from Togo, the country immediately to the east of Ghana. He is an albino and albinos throughout Africa are ravaged by skin cancer as their...

Ruth Arthurs was two when she came to the hospital in Accra with her mum. Ruth was born with a cleft palate and lip. As a happy baby the effect...

John Bortey is a cheerful young man whose face and head were ravaged by the disease, Noma. Noma is characteristic of malnourishment and is known as “the face of poverty”....