Bonds of friendship forged in a leprosy village

Cai Jieshan, wife of Ryotaro Harada, who established the non-governmental organization JIA for leprosy elimination, visits elderly patients at a leprosy village in Foshan city of Guangdong province, July 27, 2013. The couple met in 2005 at a leprosy volunteer camp in Linghou leprosy village in Chaozhou city, Guangdong province. In 2008, their first daughter was born, and they named her Linghou. [Photo/Xinhua]