PROJECTS WE SUPPORT BY GOAL:

PREVENTION:

HEALTH DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL-Providing comprehensive systemic change to decrease maternal mortality and obstetric fistula.

QUILTS FOR EMPOWERMENT-Making our Educational tools so that they can be shared throughout Africa.

LET’S END FISTULA- Outreach Healthcare Workers, who are former fistula survivors, use our educational kits to go throughout rural Kenya (to villages, churches, schools and clinics), to teach villagers about the causes, treatment and prevention of Obstetric Fistula.

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PROJECT-Currently using our Educational tools in their research to try to improve the return rates of pregnant women to the hospital for delivery.

TANZANIA WOMEN’S PROJECT- Working with the local Catholic Parish diocese, we have been educating women in rural Tanzania about Obstetric Fistula and how to prevent it.

UGANDA VILLAGE PROJECT- Our educational kits are being used in Uganda to teach rural villagers about Obstetric Fistula and how to prevent it.

DIGNITY PERIOD-Making reusable sanitary supplies to keep women in school longer, thereby avoiding childhood marriage and pregnancy.

TREATMENT

OPERATION FISTULA- We support our friends who are working throughout Madagascar and many other regions in Africa to identify and treat women with obstetric fistula, while at the same time using the most cutting edge technology to ensure they receive the best surgical care possible.

REHABILITATION

HEALING HANDS OF JOY- We support our dear friends in Ethiopia who are providing comprehensive post-surgical rehabilitation and life-renewing skills to women who have been devastated by having had obstetric fistula.These women become Safe Motherhood Ambassadors, they then go out to find other women with fistula, as well as speaking to pregnant women about the need to get prenatal and natal care to prevent additional needless childbirth injuries.

BEGI WOMEN’S COOPERATIVE-We help to support this small cooperative of women who unfortunately can not be completely cured.

QUILTS FOR EMPOWERMENT-This organization is helping women who have survived having an obstetric fistula by teaching them to sew quilts and other beautiful handmade crafts. They also are now sewing our patented Fistula Dolls and making our other educational tools, which not only helps to support them and their women’s cooperative, but also allows them to become part of the solution in helping to end obstetric fistula. Just knowing that they are helping others avoid this terrible condition is, in itself, empowering.