“With fistula I couldn’t walk with friends, I couldn’t have a child, I lost all my life. The pain is unbearable.” – Hawwa
Hawwa's story
Hawwa longs to be a mother.
Complications in her first pregnancy caused an obstetric fistula (a hole between her birth canal and bladder) 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 without help, hope or kindness. Grieving for the children she never had, she was alone and ashamed.
All she wished for was a cure. She didn’t know one was possible.
Your donation today will find a woman like Hawwa - trapped in the agony of fistula - and get her to the life-restoring comfort and care she urgently needs.
Women with fistula are hiding away in shame, without kindness or hope.
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.
Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia’s teams are there walking door-to-door to find and transport women hiding in shame and isolation to a Hamlin hospital for treatment and holistic care.
On arrival, she’ll be warmly welcomed with her Hamlin Comfort Package, before surgery to repair her fistula and restore her life.
Your contribution today will start the next woman’s healing journey.
Thanks to compassionate 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 treatment and wrapped her in warmth and new hope.
Your next act of kindness 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.
Please donate now to give comfort, care and healing.
“Now I feel healthy! I am dry. I will go home and start my life again.” – Hawwa
Will you make a woman feel clean, welcomed and loved?
Your gift of a Comfort Package will show a woman that you care for her from the other side of the world. You'll wrap her up in the love she's been shut out from for so long.
