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Tag: Midwives

Midwives in the Making

Every year bright young women from diverse regions of Ethiopia are awarded a scholarship to study midwifery at the Hamlin College of Midwives. ...

November 23rd, 2018 Read More

A midwife in every village

Walk in her shoes  Imagine you are a twenty-five year old woman living in a small rural town in Oromia, eastern Ethiopia. Here, the land is characterised by rugged mountain ranges and plunging gorges, hampering access to essential healthcare services. As an expecting mother, you would have difficulty finding help from medical professionals. Five per […]...

November 22nd, 2018 Read More

Two midwives making a difference

July is graduation season for students at the Hamlin College of Midwives! As the 8th round of students prepare for their graduation ceremony tomorrow July 14, we speak to Meron and Firomi – two of Hamlin’s 2017 graduates. One year later, we catch up with them to find out what it is like to be […]...

July 13th, 2018 Read More

Portable Ultrasound Machines at the Hamlin College of Midwives

The importance of ultrasound Ultrasound can literally save the lives of mothers and babies. It is something that we often take for granted here in Australia, but in Ethiopia this is a service that has hitherto been unavailable particularly in rural health centres. Imagine trying to look after a patient but not knowing if she […]...

July 11th, 2018 Read More

Hamlin Midwives are saving lives

Welcome to the Burussa Health Centre, home to a Hamlin-supported midwifery clinic. Located in Yayo, a small, rural village in southwest Ethiopia, this clinic provides high quality maternal care for the thousands of women in the region. Burussa is a government health centre supported by Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia. When it was established in 2008, just […]...

April 16th, 2018 Read More

A long term solution

Tblets, 22, from Tigray in Ethiopia’s far north, is in her fourth and final year of training at the Hamlin College of Midwives. When she graduates, she will return to a remote area of the region, to work as a midwife, as a way of preventing fistula and other childbirth injuries.     “I wanted […]...

March 19th, 2018 Read More

The importance of a midwife

For Australian women, it is almost unimaginable to give birth alone, with no hospital, no medical clinic or even no midwife. It would be both frightening and dangerous. Yet in Ethiopia today an estimated 85% of women give birth without any medical help. As a result, every day in Ethiopia, ten women develop an obstetric […]...

December 15th, 2017 Read More

From the field – a visit to the Hamlin College of Midwives

“I felt so proud to share with the group the incredible work of the Hamlin prevention pillar. Our midwives, staff and students are passionate and world class.” – Emily A vision realised When Catherine and Reg first arrived in Ethiopia in 1959, their plan was to set up a midwifery school in Addis Ababa. But, […]...

December 14th, 2017 Read More

Preventing Obstetric Fistula and other Childbirth Injuries in Ethiopia

The Hamlin College of Midwives Dr Catherine Hamlin has worked for almost 60 years to eradicate obstetric fistula in Ethiopia. Catherine founded Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital and five other regional fistula hospitals across Ethiopia and in 2007 she established the Hamlin College of Midwives. In the ten years since first opening its […]...

November 9th, 2017 Read More

Meeting Sister Belaynesh, a Hamlin Midwife

“I am in Awe. Sister Belaynesh holds in her hands the power of life and death… she is able to use simple and cost-effective tools to work miracles.” – Fiona Our four wheel drive turns off the main sealed road and onto compacted earth; baked dry under bright sunshine. I squint through the dust on the windshield […]...

November 9th, 2017 Read More

Congratulations Habtam

A talented student Habtam was born and raised in Debark, a small city in Northern Ethiopia. An outstanding high school student, she was noticed early by our screening team at the Hamlin College of Midwives. While in her final year of high school, Habtam was recruited into the college’s four year Bachelor of Science in […]...

August 18th, 2017 Read More

Class of 2017

“We are midwives!” This was the proud concluding statement of a speech by Tizita, the Student Representative of the Hamlin College of Midwives 2017 graduating class. Despite it being the rainy season in Ethiopia, the rain stayed away long enough for everyone to enjoy this important graduation ceremony, the 7th since the college opened in […]...

July 27th, 2017 Read More