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“With fistula I couldn’t walk with friends, I couldn’t have a child, I lost all my life. The pain is unbearable.” – Hawwa
Donate before 30 June to help find and treat a woman like Hawwa, trapped in the agony of fistula.
Hawwa longs to be a mother.
Complications in her first pregnancy caused an obstetric fistula that left her incontinent, with a stillborn baby and unable to sustain another pregnancy.
The emotional and physical toll has been devastating. Hawwa hid away for years, grieving for the children she never had, alone and ashamed.
She did not know a cure was possible.
Women with fistula are hiding away in shame.
They can be cured, but first they must be found.
In remote villages across Ethiopia, far from the nearest hospital, an estimated 31,000 women are hidden away in the agony of obstetric fistula.
Most do not know there is a cure.
Tolera needs your support to find and treat every woman living with fistula.
“Finding fistula patients is so difficult. Our work is the bridge between patients living with this awful problem and Hamlin Fistula Hospitals that cure them. After treatment, women can live freely. ” – Tolera, Hamlin Patient Identification Officer
Thanks to supporters like you, the Hamlin team located Hawwa despite the fact she was hidden away.
They brought her to Hamlin’s Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital for life-changing surgery and wrapped her in warmth and new hope.
Your donation will help find and cure a woman like Hawwa, empowering her to start her life anew.
No more suffering. No more pain. No more isolation and shame.
“Now I feel healthy! I am dry. I will go home and start my life again.” – Hawwa
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