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Yuan Yahua, who works for Handa, holds up a mould for a prosthetic limb at a factory in Guangzhou, a city in China's southern Guangdong province, March 10, 2007. Handa, a Chinese charity that helps sufferers of leprosy, or Hansen's disease, believes one way to reduce stigma is to stop using words like "leper", a term loaded with age-old misconceptions. A team of four people -- have custom-made over 9,000 pairs of shoes and 359 prosthetic limbs since 2000 for people disabled by the disease and they travel around China's southern Guangdong province making prosthetic limbs and customised shoes for people left disabled by the disease. Picture taken March 10, 2007. To match feature LEPROSY-CHINA/ REUTERS/Lim Chit Yeang (CHINA)