Click here to read Steve Meacham’s full article, “Sentimental journey with pictures of hope”, from The Sydney Morning Herald (October 15, 2019). Photos: Kate Geraghty, Renee Nowytarger To learn more about Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation’s bi-annual trips to Ethiopia, click here. To purchase Wendy Sharpe’s limited-edition art prints and support Dr Catherine Hamlin’s work, click […]...
Dr Catherine Hamlin has dedicated her life to ensuring that women are able to access quality maternal healthcare and deliver a baby safely. Over her 60 years in Ethiopia, she has helped over 60,000 women receive free obstetric fistula repair surgeries. In providing these surgeries, Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia have been able to restore dignity to […]...
While many obstetric fistula sufferers can be cured with a single surgery at a Hamlin Hospital, sometimes it is not enough to heal every woman. Some women require multiple surgeries and many cannot return to their communities or live independently. That’s why in 2002 Dr Catherine Hamlin founded Desta Mender (‘Joy Village’), a recovery centre […]...
Complete and compassionate care The debilitating and often complex nature of an obstetric fistula injury requires patients to receive special and particular care by attentive medical professionals. The Hamlin Model of Care is centred on the idea of treating the patient as a whole; the fundamental respect for the patient allows Hamlin patients to rehabilitate […]...
Dr Reg Hamlin, co-founder of Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia, was a brilliant obstetrician-gynaecologist. His passion for medicine often lent itself to bemusing antics – yet it was this same passion that helped Reg and Catherine Hamlin establish the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital and pioneer a refined surgical technique for repairing obstetric fistula injuries. Outside the box […]...
By hosting a High Tea for Hamlin, you can help raise funds for women in Ethiopia suffering with the most horrific, preventable, childbirth injury – obstetric fistula. We love sharing the stories of the fundraisers in our Australia-wide high tea community, and what inspired them to get involved. The Brisbane High Rise Rotary Club’s High Tea […]...
A woman’s fistula injury is not the end of her story Donate today to help turn a woman’s life around. Sometimes surgery is not enough to heal women suffering with an obstetric fistula. Survivors have suffered real trauma. Many women cannot return to their communities and few have an income that allows them to live […]...
Previously in Reg and Catherine’s story… With an unconventional first meeting – a job interview for a resident position at the Crown Street Women’s Hospital – the then Dr Catherine Nicholson and Dr Reginald Hamlin were destined for an unconventional love story. Upon accepting the resident job, Catherine’s mother had asked Reg, Crown Street’s medical […]...
When Drs Reg and Catherine Hamlin first arrived in Ethiopia in 1959, they did so with the intention to work as obstetrician-gynaecologists and set up a midwifery school in Addis Ababa on a three-year contract. Upon reaching Ethiopia, Reg and Catherine were introduced to patients suffering from obstetric fistula – a condition they had never […]...
When Drs Reg and Catherine Hamlin first arrived in Addis Ababa in 1959, they found themselves placed in the midst of the hustle and bustle of hospital life with little preamble. Managing new jobs, a new health system, a new language and a new continent was tricky – yet the Hamlins’ ability to make friends, […]...
Throughout her 95 years Dr Catherine Hamlin has been an inspiration to thousands of people across the world – but do you know about the people who inspired Catherine? Many fascinating people in both the medical and civilian world have influenced Catherine’s work serving some of the most vulnerable women in Ethiopia. Learn more about […]...
Dr Catherine Hamlin lives in a little cottage on the grounds of the hospital she founded in 1974 with her late husband, Dr Reg Hamlin. Even from this plot of land by a river, Catherine’s pioneering actions have resonated across the world, inspiring thousands to do what they can to help eradicate fistula. Forever. Catherine’s […]...
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