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...Lepers of Tala...
...pleased to read your Aug. 20 article on Father Hofstee at Tala. When I first heard of him, a few years ago, he was living in a makeshift hut in the leper colony, eating canned goods that he cooked over a portable stove. I hope your article will inspire some readers to assist him in the tremendous task he has assumed of rehabilitating these unfortunate people...
...Christmas 1945, in Manila. Father Hofstee was the Army chaplain who convinced several members of the Army show Yanksapoppin that they should go out and entertain "my lepers at Tala." We reluctantly agreed...
Then we saw Tala, a series of quonset huts, set in a small valley. Large letters on the roof of the largest hut spelled out TALA LEPROSARIUM FOR ALL TO SEE AND BE WARNED. Joey was there to greet us, and behind her were 300 men, women & children, all smiling and eager to help us unload the instruments, including the piano...
...transformation of Tala is not simply a matter of goods and services. More damaging than the disease itself, he thinks, is the leper's lonely sense of being abhorred, cast out and forgotten. Father Hofstee's chief effort is to give the lepers a real world of their own, with love |n it and bright things to hope for. If you ask Father Hofstee, he will tell you that Tala is the best thing that ever happened to him. Says he: "If you put me out of here, you cut my head off. This is my life...