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