Kalaupapa Molokai Hawaii

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However, our entrance to the Kalaupapa peninsula on Molokai, one of Hawaii's isles, is a much more civilized matter than for most of those who were once sent here. Occasionally violently cast over board by vessels, they grudgingly wade onshore to this barren, humid and draughty place - nowadays only reachable on shore via the path of the mules - to try to eradicate a kind of livelihood with at first minimum help in the form of livelihood.

The Molokai from the sky. Hawaii passed its leprosy isolation law in 1865, and for the next 100 years anyone under suspicion of having this dreaded illness was sent without ceremonies to the mainland, which was selected for its shelter. Kalaupapa is 3000 ha of shallow country at the bottom of the world's highest bluffs, rising into the ocean like a sharkfin, lined with dark red rock and sandstone.

Today, even in the rainy season, it looks tidy and attractive: the lawn is cut, the building is in good condition, there is a lot of area. We leave our burros in a courtyard to take a break for the way back and are taken by Norman to look around and find out about the murky story of Kalaupapa.

She is a typically historical woman: at 18 years of age, she was screened for her illness - now treatable and referred to as Hansen's Sickness - was kidnapped from her home and sent to Kalihi Clinic in Oahu and then, as a penalty for her repeated escape home, to Kalaupapa, where she lived her whole lifetime to die at the age 90.

Across the other side of the promontory, through forests where we see stags and boars and goats, are the abandoned ruins of Kalawao with spectacular vistas of foggy rocks falling into the sea. And Norman leads us to the chapel that Father Damien himself made there:) His right arm alone is dead here, the remainder of his own bodies exchumed and returning to Belgium after his canonization. But Norman is determined that his mind will remain in Kalaupapa.

He died in a grim laughing stock, although 96 percent of the world's inhabitants are inherently immunized against the sickness. "I' m starving for work.... I' m not scared of illness," she said. The first view of the Kalaupapa Peninsula.

When you look at the mowed weed and the well-kept farmhouses - the National Park services are now in charge of the entire island - you can hardly believe the desperation caused by illness and insulation, which must have destroyed the life of these unfortunate individuals who have been displaced from the community at a period when they needed the most help.

An indication of the fierce detail of her life is the small quadratic openings that Father Damien made in the ground of St. Philomena to allow some people to drool involuntarily through the rolling of rosewood. in Kalawao was made by Father Damien himself.

Accompanied by the author, Hawaii Tourism. The tomb of Father Damien is next to the temple, although his corpse was given back to Belgium.