Some
of these abandoned communities still live under this veil of political and social
irresponsibility, as human evidences of a tragedy perpetrated by our own fear
and ignorance.
Braulino
Alves de Lima, 63 years old, confined at the Leprosarium of Antonio Aleixo in
1954, by the age of 11.
Anselmo
Coelho, about 30 years old, lives in a slum in the outskirts of the deactivated
Bonfim Leprosary.
Olavo Barradas Alho, 86 years old, lost contact with all his family after confinement
in the Santo Antonio do Prata Leprosarium in 1931, by the age of 10.
