Kalaupapa today is the world’s most famous colony for patients with Hansen’s disease, more commonly known as leprosy. As of April 2024, eight people were still on the patient register at ...

The Kalaupapa Peninsula is located on the north shore of Molokai and is one of the most unique places in all the islands. In the mid-1800s, a leprosy epidemic broke out in Hawaii. Worried that it ...

More than 8,000 men and women lived and died at the colony until the state of Hawaii lifted ... s acceptance of the seals is connected to its history. Leprosy patients sent to Kalaupapa “were outcasts ...

Stephen Inglis is among the performers featured in a concert to raise funds for the Kalaupapa Memorial ... of government policies regarding leprosy, now called Hansen’s disease — around ...

Clarence “Boogie” Kahilihiwa delivers an opening greeting at the 2018 annual meeting of Ka ‘Ohana O Kalaupapa at Kalaupapa. Kahilihiwa died Friday at age 79. HENRY G. LAW photo Clarence ...

resulting in a tale of the widespread devotion to two Catholic saints who cared for patients banished to Hawaii’s leprosy colony. Persistence is the one-word theme of this stunning project by Hawaii’s ...