Worldwide Fistula Fund | Non-profit organization dedicated to providing life-saving obstetric fistula surgery for women in sub-Saharan Africa and other developing areas

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Your Gift Doubles!

An anonymous donor is matching up to $6,500 in honor of International Day to End Obstetric Fistula. Your gift today not only provides holistic care to one woman in need, it can provide two women with life-changing services. Match ends May 31!

Double My Impact
Irego: My Parents Hated Me

Irego was 15 when she was raped, became pregnant and developed an obstetric fistula that forced her to hide from her own family. Because of your generosity, she received life-changing fistula surgery and is now a tailoring instructor at the nearly completed TERREWODE Women’s Community Hospital.

Help Women like Irego
You Amplify Her Voice

Mwajuma knows the joy a healthy birth and the devastation of an unsafe one. Your support is helping her — along with 215 other fistula survivors in Kenya — to teach Safe Motherhood: Preventing Obstetric Fistula. Your gift today matters, and Mwajuma will tell you why.

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Learn About Our Services

Women and girls receive life-changing fistula surgery and are empowered to begin new lives through vocational training. Childbirth is safer through expert OB-GYN and Health Advocacy training.
Developing Local Leaders

WFF believes that solving world problems like obstetric fistula, which devastates more than two million women worldwide, means finding and developing local leaders like Dr. Itengré Ouédraogo in Burkina Faso, Sarah Omega in Kenya, and Alice Emasu in Uganda.