The 2025 cohort of Hamlin Midwife students were warmly welcomed to the Hamlin College of Midwives at the start of the year!

As part of their induction, the 25 new students were given a tour of Hamlin’s Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital and enjoyed some sightseeing around Ethiopia’s bustling capital.

Back at the College, they were shown the facilities and their accommodation and given their new student uniforms.

Thanks to your support, these amazing young women are studying for their BSc in Midwifery free of charge.

Carefully selected from rural areas in urgent need of midwifery professionals, they will return to their communities in four years’ time as highly trained health professionals ready to save lives and prevent obstetric fistula.

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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.

Welcome to the new cohort of Hamlin Midwife students