Worldwide Fistula Fund

The Worldwide Fistula Fund is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing life-saving obstetric fistula surgery for women in sub-Saharan Africa and other developing areas.

Fistula, internal injuries that happen when women don’t have access to proper medical care during or after childbirth, have devastating effects on a woman’s physical, psychological and emotional health. But there is a treatment that ends this suffering.

And the Worldwide Fistula Fund provides it.

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Danja Fistula Center

The Worldwide Fistula Fund is excited to announce our latest initiative: the opening of our state-of-the-art Danja Fistula Center in Niger! Our fistula hospital will provide treatment for 2,500 women within the first five years of operation, as well as prevention and rehabilitation programs and surgical training for local staff members. After years of dedicated fundraising, planning and construction, we will open full-time in February 2012.

Follow the link below to learn more about this exciting development in the fight against fistula.

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Take Action

Women suffering from obstetric fistula need your help to regain their personal dignity and hope for the future.

Take action to end this devastation today by sending a tax-deductible donation to the WFF, writing your representatives about the scourge of fistula, or simply spreading the word about our organization among your friends and colleagues.

Click through to find out more ways to support the WFF and the women of Africa.

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STORIES OF HOPE
The women who suffer from obstetric fistula could be any one of us – they like smiling and laughing, they have dreams for their future, and they value their families above all else. What makes them different is that they don’t have access to the medical care they need to be healthy themselves and to deliver healthy babies. They don’t have educations, they don’t have resources and they don’t have any way to fix their condition on their own. But with your help, the Worldwide Fistula Fund is making a difference in the lives of many.

Meet some of the wonderful women that your donations have brought hope and healing to by clicking on the picture to your right.