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Because of you, a new life for Abebech 

After a full year of treatment at the Hamlin Addis Ababa Hospital, Abebech is finally cured.

With no access to maternal healthcare, Abebech endured eleven days of excruciating labour before delivering a stillborn baby. She sustained a double fistula, leaving her incontinent of urine and faeces.

Abebech spent 15 years hiding in shame and isolation. She recalls: “The shame was overwhelming. I asked my family to let me die rather than endure such a harsh existence. I spent years suffering in silence.”

After a full year of treatment and rehabilitation at Hamlin’s Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, Abebech was finally healed and is so grateful to kind supporters like you.

The transformation was profound. I felt a sense of liberation and I could finally look forward to the future with hope and joy.

- Abebech


Abebech says: "I am a new person. Please continue helping women like me. Your kindness truly saves lives."

Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia provides world-class obstetric fistula treatment to restore the health and dignity of women who have survived this horrendous, preventable childbirth injury. 

Join us in giving women like Abebech hope for the future. Donate Today.


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Hamlin Fistula NZ is committed to providing ongoing support for fistula surgery and for the preventive work of the midwives. The hospital in Addis Ababa has become a centre of excellence to which doctors from other countries come to learn and master the specialist skills of fistula surgery.

Photography credits to Mary F. Calvert, Kate Geraghty, Amber Hooper, Joni Kabana, Joli Wescombe, Natasha Meyer and Martha Tadesse.