Love a Sister, Transform a Life
Love a Sister, Transform a Life
Through Giving Tuesday (December 1), all gifts—up to a total of $275,000—will be MATCHED* to provide life-transforming treatment for women across Africa and Asia.
Hilda (pictured at right) was in labor for three days before her parents took her to the hospital. It was too late. Her baby was already dead. Soon after, she realized she was leaking urine.
Hilda suffered from obstetric fistula for 17 years, before she was treated at our partner Maternity Africa in Tanzania.
Today, Hilda is an outreach worker for incoming fistula patients. She uses a motorbike to reach women in hard-to-reach places. She asks them not to believe that fistula is witchcraft, or that they need to be afraid of surgery. Often, she has to combat doubt and stigma from elders who say that no one in the clan has ever received an operation.
“I have the passion [to help] and I don’t want to see women in the villages still suffering,” she said. “I always talk to them and encourage them. I always tell them not to give up, they will heal one day.”
When you support Fistula Foundation’s Love a Sister program, you cover the direct cost of care to treat women like Hilda injured in childbirth.
Across Africa and Asia, up to one million women suffer needlessly from obstetric fistula––a devastating childbirth injury that leaves them incontinent, ashamed, and often outcast from their communities. A single surgery, with an average direct cost of just $624 could cure them for life.
Your gift can help give a woman a new life. Send love to a sister this Giving Tuesday.
*To increase access to these matching funds, the first $27,500 of your gift will be matched.
Through Giving Tuesday (December 1), all gifts—up to a total of $275,000—will be MATCHED* to provide life-transforming treatment for women across Africa and Asia.
Hilda (pictured at right) was in labor for three days before her parents took her to the hospital. It was too late. Her baby was already dead. Soon after, she realized she was leaking urine.
Hilda suffered from obstetric fistula for 17 years, before she was treated at our partner Maternity Africa in Tanzania.
Today, Hilda is an outreach worker for incoming fistula patients. She uses a motorbike to reach women in hard-to-reach places. She asks them not to believe that it’s witchcraft, or that they need to be afraid of surgery. Often, she has to combat doubt and stigma from elders who say that no one in the clan has ever received an operation.
“I have the passion [to help] and I don’t want to see women in the villages still suffering,” she said. “I always talk to them and encourage them. I always tell them not to give up, they will heal one day.”
When you support Fistula Foundation’s Love a Sister program, you cover the direct cost of care to treat women like Hilda injured in childbirth.
Across Africa and Asia, up to one million women suffer needlessly from obstetric fistula––a devastating childbirth injury that leaves them incontinent, ashamed, and often outcast from their communities. A single surgery, with an average direct cost of just $624 could cure them for life.
Your gift can help give a woman a new life. Send love to a sister this Giving Tuesday.
*To increase access to these matching funds, the first $27,500 of your gift will be matched.