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Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. (1883-11-16). The late Dr. J. Marion Sims (from a photograph by Sarony.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1486927304392-MNCJ1ZNZZ1ROUGG2926R/image-asset.jpeg HISTORY Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. (1915). Windsor plantation; [View of African American women working in the cotton field.] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1486926381843-K2DAAAL2V3TNKL7CDZNS/nypl.digitalcollections.510d47e2-cd74-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.001.w.jpg HISTORY Art and Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1907). Outer coffin of Touiyou. http://www.protectyoursisterproject.org/begi-ethiopia daily 0.75 2024-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1544631638892-5KWSGY3VCAYFFQ5TS9WL/image-asset.jpeg BEGI HEALTH CLINIC Photograph with kind permission by Kristie McLean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1487011228247-8KEQRWB0XDMX4BKGVTS1/image-asset.jpeg BEGI HEALTH CLINIC Photograph with kind permission by Kristie McLean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1544631519428-7OAZGVTUPKFJ0LD5ZEP0/image-asset.jpeg BEGI HEALTH CLINIC Photograph with kind permission by Kristie McLean. http://www.protectyoursisterproject.org/begi-womens-cooperative daily 0.75 2024-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1487013178203-SJ13SD4DNEDMZYIE7QCR/Ethiopia+2015-9745-2.jpg BEGI WOMEN'S COOPERATIVE Photograph with kind permission by Kristie McLean. These beautiful women form a cooperative. Photographer Kristie McLean has lovingly helped support these women for years. Protect Your Sister Project has helped support her efforts in this endeavor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1487011431768-CWKOKVRPR3Q4SOOB0ZSA/image-asset.jpeg BEGI WOMEN'S COOPERATIVE Photograph with kind permission by Kristie McLean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1487011392575-VZ0V4CE7TL6V0SEH4MLC/image-asset.jpeg BEGI WOMEN'S COOPERATIVE Photograph with kind permission by Kristie McLean. http://www.protectyoursisterproject.org/begi-grist-mill daily 0.75 2021-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1487011975235-JB4SM072B60GNCACBMGR/image-asset.jpeg BEGI GRIST MILL Photograph with kind permission by Kristie McLean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1487011689737-REXW29JV81K9MVHDD1XH/image-asset.jpeg BEGI GRIST MILL Photograph with kind permission by Kristie McLean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1487011884257-TUA669W8IUW0YCRVVH01/image-asset.jpeg BEGI GRIST MILL Photograph with kind permission by Kristie McLean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1487011839508-WP5QGSBCHMG300USDKFA/image-asset.jpeg BEGI GRIST MILL Photograph with kind permission by Kristie McLean. http://www.protectyoursisterproject.org/projects-1 daily 0.75 2024-04-28 http://www.protectyoursisterproject.org/healing-hands-of-joy daily 0.75 2024-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1487015523541-C2KUOPS58K5I4JRHSHL3/image-asset.jpeg HEALING HANDS OF JOY Women who have recently been cured of obstetric fistula at the Healing Hands of Joy, examining Protect Your Sister Project's educational tools and having a good laugh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1487015445462-J9393JBKRROD243LUZO5/image-asset.jpeg HEALING HANDS OF JOY Photograph with kind permission by Kristie McLean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1487015723389-COC9VOJR2TU8XY2W0OH5/39th+Class+SMAs_0.png HEALING HANDS OF JOY Graduating Safe Motherhood Ambassadors at the Healing Hands of Joy Center in Mekelle. These women will now go home to their village and search for other victims of obstetric fistula. Photo used with kind permission by Allison Shigo, Healing Hands of Joy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1487015414701-KYJ3QZD6EP4VT84N9LVH/FullSizeRender-4.jpg HEALING HANDS OF JOY Photo used with kind permission by Kristie McLean. http://www.protectyoursisterproject.org/about-obstetric-fistula daily 0.75 2024-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1542229256901-12C98C5BAP2RTXZBK1GT/IMG_3926.jpg WHO GETS OBSTETRIC FISTULA? Pictures courtesy of Lucy Baxter, Mandrake Films and Al Jazeera. Here she is after discovering her surgery was successful and she is dry!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1490550585877-DQ90OXWSWM6S5ROHWG12/image-asset.jpeg WHO GETS OBSTETRIC FISTULA? Photo kind courtesy of Lucy Baxter, Mandrake films. This young woman suffered with an obstetric fistula, until she received a simple surgery and was cured. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1490557095002-ZSC9TR5PZERVJFCBBBSJ/image-asset.jpeg WHO GETS OBSTETRIC FISTULA? Picture courtesy of Terrewode, Uganda http://www.protectyoursisterproject.org/educational-tools daily 0.75 2024-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1542172502621-GZ6R8FZO46ZIAQ79SDMK/IMG_1627.jpg EDUCATIONAL TOOLS UNDERSTANDING THIS COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING This is an intentionally simplified, and easily understood educational tool that shows the most common cause of obstructed labor— the head of the infant is too large to pass through the pelvic outlet. This basic concept is often not understood in many areas throughout Africa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/d5c99c64-7a4c-468a-83c1-65023fede4bb/IMG_1656+2.jpeg EDUCATIONAL TOOLS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/0a9d1f1e-c082-41b4-bc4e-007de16916a6/806a6f6b-bb66-4cdc-bdaa-56c343502564.jpg EDUCATIONAL TOOLS - Make it stand out A child is playing with our educational dolls, learning about obstructed labor and normalizing the concept of Cesarean-Section to avoid obstetric fistula. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1624110981648-TA87GAQQXRLNHP7W1TRS/IMG_1625.jpg EDUCATIONAL TOOLS - A POWERFUL TOOL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1624112198238-VM3P0MZEYSYLR2SL441Y/IMG_0251.jpeg EDUCATIONAL TOOLS We have designed and patented anatomically correct, but simplified dolls to teach people about obstructed labor and normal labor. These dolls show young and older women who can only deliver by a C-section, as well as women who can deliver normally. They can be made by recuperating fistula patients and taken home to explain to their families and villages what happened, thus helping to destigmatize this condition. http://www.protectyoursisterproject.org/operation-fistula daily 0.75 2024-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1542228848152-AIOZLRS11PQNSNHJKED2/IMG_2791.jpg OPERATION FISTULA For around $300 dollars, a woman’s life can be restored. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1542228772425-Q4SSSRGY9TI0SRV140Q4/IMG_3920.jpg OPERATION FISTULA http://www.protectyoursisterproject.org/dignity-period daily 0.75 2024-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1510433688501-X413IB03J6NB6GE94CZK/IMG_2611+%281%29.jpg DIGNITY PERIOD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1510433636774-29NS8YXKZK1R5749KQHR/IMG_2591.jpg DIGNITY PERIOD http://www.protectyoursisterproject.org/health-development-international daily 0.75 2024-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1542230110120-UALNBD63RO4H2KA5VS2C/IMG_1966-Village+houses+w+donkeys+%26+children.JPG HEALTH & DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL Health Development International (HDI) has a Rapid Response Team to Prevent Obstetric Fistula and Maternal Mortality. Their programs have resulted in some of the lowest Maternal Mortality rates in the world (1 death and 1 obstetric fistula in 126,000 births!! )This is better than most developed countries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1542230446903-YM6GEV2XF7SG6PTYBWR2/IMG_2669.JPG HEALTH & DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL If a woman is in obstructed labor, she will be taken to the nearest surgeon by any method available- including an ambulance, donkey cart or a motorcycle. Using this approach they have significantly brought the maternal mortality and obstetric fistula rate down. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1542230351924-7NWIHD1GMB6GACJ0URR1/IMG_1919-Discussion+around+pagivolt.JPG HEALTH & DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL Workers in Niger teach villagers about the danger of prolonged obstructed labor. http://www.protectyoursisterproject.org/resources daily 0.75 2024-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1543806598220-6UXKKSVYQWIGO9LBXKIW/Ethiopia2010-2466+copy.jpg RESOURCES Photo used with the kind permission of Kristie McLean. http://www.protectyoursisterproject.org/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2024-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1544900884230-FHPO7VYEICXOYNLSCEFV/IMG_1229.jpg CONSEQUENCES OF OBSTETRIC FISTULA Photo used with kind permission by Lucy Baxter of Mandrake films http://www.protectyoursisterproject.org/begi-sewing-cooperative daily 0.75 2025-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1549133547974-QSIHFLO19M9785K0JJHU/Ethiopia+2015-0214-2.jpg BEGI SEWING COOPERATIVE Photograph by Kristie McLean. http://www.protectyoursisterproject.org/recent-news daily 0.75 2024-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1563881235663-F73YHQ7DEQVDJN8CIE92/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_8504.jpg RECENT NEWS APRIL & MAY 2019 Arriving at the Mercy Ship in Conakry, Guinea at night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1563881672894-BQGDI3TDCPCO3VBW7A7L/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_8725.jpg RECENT NEWS APRIL & MAY 2019 Having some fun with the patients at the Hope Lodge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1563880945220-889XOZWWJE50HCUCWXJ1/oOhGNJCQSkigJNsVpC3V8g_thumb_854d.jpg RECENT NEWS APRIL & MAY 2019 - Meeting with Dr. ?,Fistula Surgeon of Mercy Ships https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1563879957897-3AI6HSZ371OR2U0B4HY6/GND190502_USA_VT_CHENOWETH_DECK7_LA002_MID.jpg RECENT NEWS APRIL & MAY 2019 PROTECT YOUR SISTER PROJECT Director, Joni Chenoweth, seen here teaching a class to Obstetric Fistula patients on the deck of the Mercy Ship, explaining this condition. 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This is why our educational tools are so powerful and important. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1563881756244-36AJLZ2EL6Z3HSUGK3CY/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_847d.jpg RECENT NEWS APRIL & MAY 2019 This is the anatomically correct educational doll that will teach patients about obstructed labor for Senegal, the site of the Mercy Ships next stop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1563881958159-Z4G7CI8RWP1WZC3IO7M5/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_875b.jpg RECENT NEWS APRIL & MAY 2019 One of the Goals of Mercy Ships, they were very impressive. http://www.protectyoursisterproject.org/new-page daily 0.75 2025-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1563882509934-CWEBNW3VYKR93004R2BF/DGTwAzbdT4ao2FVOo0YIYQ_thumb_8be7.jpg RECENT NEWS JUNE 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1563882429178-GXAQWZ2ZNT67STTPOSOP/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_8839.jpg RECENT NEWS JUNE 2019 Meeting with Edna Adan from Somaliland Hospital, and with Mary Ann Mc Cammon from Quilts for Empowerment in Kenya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57702015579fb3131646c266/1563882459635-M5BKV5D52L4EA5A61DNG/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_8cdb.jpg RECENT NEWS JUNE 2019 PROTECT YOUR SISTER PROJECT in cooperation with OPERATION FISTULA, at the Women Deliver Conference. sponsored the only gathering for all of the people who work on the cause of Obstetric Fistula worldwide. 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