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Enatanesh: One of 60,000 Stories

Sixty years ago, Drs Reg and Catherine Hamlin travelled to Ethiopia for what was meant to be a three-year post. When they arrived they found thousands of women suffering from devastating fistula injuries. They knew they could never turn their back on these women. This was a turning point for maternal health in Ethiopia. Since […]...

June 27th, 2019 Read More

The Hospital by the River Prologue

Sixty years ago, Drs Reg and Catherine Hamlin travelled to Ethiopia for what was meant to be a three-year post. When they arrived they found thousands of women suffering from devastating fistula injuries. They knew they could never turn their back on these women. This was a turning point for maternal health in Ethiopia. Since […]...

May 9th, 2019 Read More

Catherine Awarded with Honorary Ethiopian Citizenship

On 26th April 2012, Dr Catherine Hamlin was bestowed with an honorary Ethiopian citizenship in recognition of her dedication to the people of Ethiopia. In a ceremony in the Prime Ministerial Office, Catherine was given an Ethiopian passport and certificate of honorary citizenship. In awarding Dr Hamlin, the former Prime Minister Meles Zenawi noted her […]...

April 29th, 2019 Read More

A Princess Came for Tea

Two remarkable women It was the meeting of two Australian women who have inspired thousands with their grace, humility and compassion for marginalised people. On 18 February 2015, Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary of Denmark visited the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital where she met with Dr Catherine Hamlin. At the famed Hospital by the […]...

April 14th, 2019 Read More

Lete’s story

Lete and Catherine, 57 years of friendship “Lete is our Hospital’s inspiration and in her quiet and dignified Ethiopian way has helped thousands of patients who have received her loving care. Her character shines out by the life she lives and her serenity is seen by all.” – Dr Catherine Hamlin  In the first bed on […]...

April 8th, 2019 Read More

Thrones, Opals and Lions!

A meeting with the Emperor It’s not every day that you have an audience with the Emperor, yet Dr Catherine Hamlin was able to arrange one for two visitors from Australia in the 1960s, Sul and Suzanne. Dressed in their finest clothes, the three women drove to the palace and awaited their meeting with the […]...

April 1st, 2019 Read More

60 years – 60,000 women

In 1959, Drs Catherine and Reg Hamlin began a journey that they thought would last three years and help a handful of women. Instead, they would forever change the maternal health landscape of Ethiopia. The Hamlin team has now treated over 60,000 women and the Hamlin Model of Care is a recognised treatment and rehabilitation program […]...

March 29th, 2019 Read More

Catherine’s nephew joins our Board

Dr David John Knox, Director, Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation. Catherine and Reg Hamlin have been part of my life for as long as I can remember as my mother was Catherine’s older sister. I was eight when they first left for Ethiopia to set up a midwifery school. I was very envious of my younger […]...

March 29th, 2019 Read More

Catherine Awarded the 2018 NSW Senior Australian of the Year

A lifetime of caring Dr Catherine Hamlin has dedicated six decades of her life to serving some of the most vulnerable women in the world: Ethiopian women who have suffered a preventable childbirth injury, obstetric fistula. On 13 November 2017, Catherine’s life work was recognised when she was awarded the 2018 NSW Senior Australian of […]...

March 21st, 2019 Read More

The First of Thousands

A shocking introduction to fistula Doctors Catherine and Reg Hamlin had been working at the Princess Tsehai Hospital for only a week when they came across their first patient with an obstetric fistula. It was a shock for the couple who had not previously seen a fistula case. In Western countries, obstetric fistulas are virtually […]...

March 15th, 2019 Read More

When two great women met: Catherine and Oprah  

“They were an unlikely pair. The charismatic, billionaire media personality…and the conservative, missionary doctor, who had spent most of her life quietly going about her life-saving medical work in Ethiopia.” – John Little, from the book Catherine’s Gift. In 2004, Dr Catherine Hamlin was invited to travel from Ethiopia to Chicago for an interview on The […]...

March 7th, 2019 Read More

Hamlin supporters rallied for iconic ‘Catherine Hamlin’ ferry

Only possibly thanks to you The green and gold Sydney ferries are an iconic part of the maritime scene in Sydney harbour and surrounding waterways. In 2016, Sydneysiders were given the opportunity to suggest and vote for the names of six new ferries. Out of the 15,000 suggestions, one of Sydney’s newest ferries was named […]...

March 1st, 2019 Read More