The intent of the Global Project on the History of Leprosy is to create a database of leprosy archives around the world for those interested in the history of the disease, as well as to give voice to those who are affected by leprosy. Visitors to the website will come across many of the myths about leprosy, like fingers and toes falling off, but the current and past segregation of lepers in many countries is not a myth. A link to the 150-page summary of the Verification Committee Concerning Hansen's Disease [Leprosy] Problem by the Japan Law Foundation provides visitors with the heartbreaking details of the Japanese segregation policy. Visitors will find the "Oral History Project" to be both heartbreaking and uplifting. For example, a Japanese poet who had been isolated most of his life due to leprosy, is quoted on the homepage of the link: "We have been segregated, true. Yet even when your body is segregated, there is no need for your mind to also be confined, is there? I just want someone to know that I have existed, and have lived here."