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Doris
Doris faced challenges after developing a fistula during the birth of her first child. For two decades, she endured a ...
Sarah
Sarah Omega, the founder and Executive Director of LEFI, shares her journey with fistula and how this childbirth injury changed ...
Habibou
Habibou developed a fistula while laboring in Bobo-Dioulasso (Bobo), Burkina Faso. She lost her baby. For five long months, she ...
Epiphanie
Epiphanie eagerly anticipated motherhood. However, her joy turned to sorrow when her baby was stillborn. Complications left her with incontinence, ...
Nathalie
In Burkina Faso, 37 year-old Nathalie lived happily near Ouagadougou with her husband and 4 children. Things changed dramatically when ...
Basalirwa
After two successful surgeries for fistulas, Basalirwa worked with Terrewode social workers for social reintegration support. The economic empowerment sessions ...
Agnes
Agnes suffered from a prolonged labor and her baby did not survive. During pregnancy, she developed a slight tear. Although ...
Maimouna
In regions torn by conflict and instability, access to maternal healthcare becomes a distant hope. For women like Maimouna, a ...
Eunice
Eunice was delivering her third child when she developed a devastating fistula. She suffered continuous, uncontrollable incontinence and as a ...
Tsahara
Tsahara was an average teenager living in Niger with her parents and attending school, but at 16 her parents decided ...
Lizata
After two years of pain and isolation, Lizata found both physical and psychological healing through life-changing services at ARENA Medical ...
Mwajuma
She’s a proud mom, a trained Safe Motherhood advocate, and an obstetric fistula survivor. Mwajuma beams with confidence now, but ...
Zuena
Meet Zuena, a student leader in Kenya whose advocacy is transforming her school and village. Through the Young Champions Fistula ...
Agnes A
Agnes was only 14 years old when her parents offered her for marriage. They were very poor and received 100,000 ...
Kemigisha
For three decades, WFF has empowered women like Kemigisha, a brave 17-year-old from Uganda. Despite facing immense challenges during childbirth ...
Vicky
In the Kasese district of Uganda and at the tender age of 14, Vicky became pregnant by her then 20 ...
Awa
After five years of living with obstetric fistula and enduring two unsuccessful surgeries, Awa’s life was transformed through care at ...
Florence
Her baby was stillborn. Three days after the surgery she began leaking urine. Florence had developed a fistula and was ...
