Trigger warning: stillbirth

“I have not gone outside for two years. No church, no markets... I stayed indoors and just cried.”

Chizoram lost her youngest baby in a traumatic stillbirth. For the next two years, small tears in her birth canal also robbed her of her financial security, her independence and left her lonely and ashamed.

Many women suffer long-term with fistula because of a lack of training and specialists in Nigeria, East Africa. The tears into the bowels and urinary track mean they can suffer relentless, mortifying leakage - sometimes for the rest of their lives.

A gift from you means that women like Chizoram can receive the medical help they need. Surgery is life-changing. It heals not only their body, but lifts the shame of leaking, releasing them from hiding at home and helping them get back on their feet.

Will you join us and help restore dignity and health to women living with obstetric fistula?