A scheme based on sacrifical giving, Caring and Sharing East Sussex, which raises money for 16 projects worldwide. Fistula Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, School For the Deaf, Dar- Es -Salaam, Tanzania, Work of Father Edwin Abanga, Bolgatanga, Ghana, You and Me clinic, Sudan, Pensions for clergy, Rwanda, Helwel Pre-Schools Feeding Programme, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, True Love Waits, KwaSiza Bantu Mission, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, Feeding Programme, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Casa Guatemala, 27 de Julio Nursery, Lima, Peru, Street Educators, Medellin, Colombia, Emanuel Crèche and Boys’ Farm, Olinda, Brazil, Day Care Centre, Ebenezer Home, Chennai, India, Little Flower Leprosy Village, Sunderpur, India, Church of North India Social Service Institute, Nagpur, India, Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed, Savar, Bangladesh
Fistula Hospital
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Obstetric fistulae are common in poor countries where good care in childbirth is not available. If the labour becomes obstructed, the mother, if she is fortunate enough to survive, will deliver a stillborn baby, but the prolonged labour often wears a hole between the bladder and the vagina. The outcome is lifelong misery due to a total and permanent incontinence which can only be cured by skilled surgery. In Ethiopia, because of the mountainous terrain, 75% of the population live an average 2½ days walk for a proper road. Yet over 1,000 women manage to get to the Fistula Hospital every year where most are cured. This usually takes three weeks and now costs £500 per patient
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In the last few years four outreach centres have opened to help patients who live a long way away from the capital, and there are plans for one more to open soon.
Smiling faces of girls waiting to go home
Links
www.hamlinfistulauk.org
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