East Timor Assignment : DONE

So finally after months of interruptions, it's on the wire.

This is the story that Margie, my colleague and I put together in text and photos and in a multimedia interactive about Leprosy and the fight to eliminate the disease.

Putting a multimedia together is a lot of work and a very tedious process. Layering sounds, editing photos, piecing the story together and weaving them all together. We feel sick looking at it after a while but the results are rewarding and i'm sure the help these leprosy patients will get will be 10-fold better.

Let's just hope we did them justice.

Of course this is just in the post production.

The real learning process is the "journey" of the assignment itself - and I don't mean literally.

For best effects, please use your head phones, you will get to hear the ambient noises as well as the narrative better. Click here to see the entire interactive put together with graphics by our team!

I hope this touches you just like it did, for me, and maybe it will widen the knowledge of the world for many of us, or even encourage us in some way to not take life for granted and remember a lot of others out there who aren't as lucky as us, and most importantly, with our able bodies and comfortable settings, be able to help another in some small way.

Click here for the story by Margie Mason, AP's health writer and my partner in crime.