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Our vision is simple:
To eradicate obstetric fistula. Forever.

For more than six decades, Dr Catherine Hamlin and her team at Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia have focused on the holistic treatment of women and girls with obstetric fistulas in Ethiopia.
Join Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation in ensuring health and dignity of mothers by treating obstetric fistula. Together, we can eradicate fistula. Forever.

Join the Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation and help restore the health and dignity of Ethiopian women living with obstetric fistula.

For over six decades, women have had their lives restored thanks to the world-renowned Hamlin Model of Care.

This best practice treatment of obstetric fistula injuries, encompassing surgical repair, rehabilitation, counselling and reintegration support, considers both the physical impact and psychological trauma of childbirth injuries.

To prevent obstetric fistulas from occurring in the first place, the Hamlin College of Midwives in Ethiopia is also training more qualified birth attendants, able to work in rural areas around the country.

Women with obstetric fistulas have suffered great trauma, but this does not need to be the end of their story. The Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation can give women back their lives. Collectively, we can eradicate fistula. Forever.

What is Obstetric Fistula?

How can I help?

Today, Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia is a healthcare network of over 550 Ethiopian staff servicing six hospitals, the Desta Mender rehabilitation center, the Hamlin College of Midwives, and over 90 Hamlin-supported midwifery clinics.

Hamlin is the reference organization and leader in the fight to eradicate obstetric fistula around the world, blazing a trail for holistic treatment and care that empowers women to reassert their humanity, secure their health and well-being, and regain their roles in their families and communities.

Start a woman on her healing journey

For a woman like Abebech, who has suffered alone with devastating childbirth injuries, often for years, a Comfort Package is the start of her return to health, to connection and community, and to the life she deserves. 

 YOU can help a woman heal and return home with confidence and pride. 
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Empower Ethiopian women

Obstetric fistula is one of the worst things that can happen to a woman. Without medical assistance, women can experience obstructed labour for days. In Ethiopia, this often results in the loss of a baby, and debilitating internal injuries which leave a woman incontinent. Ashamed, alone, and without medical treatment, these women become isolated from their families and communities.

YOU can help. Join our Hamlin Monthly Giver community and help FIND, HEAL and EMPOWER women every day.
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Hamlin College of Midwives

Hamlin midwives work in rural communities to prevent fistula.
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Hamlin Model of Care

The World’s Leading Approach to Treating Obstetric Fistula
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What Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia has accomplished to date, with support from Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation

Lasting change for women and girls requires addressing a critical root cause of obstetric fistula: a lack of skilled birth attendants. That’s why Hamlin introduced programs to increase access to quality healthcare locally. Through these measures, we aim to break the cycle of unrelieved obstructed labor and women and girls from sustaining obstetric fistulas in the first place.
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60,000+
women treated
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234
midwifery graduates to date
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60+
years of continuous operation
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550+
Ethiopian staff

A Lifetime of Caring


My wish is for my dream to come true, to eradicate obstetric fistula. Forever.

Dr Catherine Hamlin AC
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Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation is fiscally sponsored by KBFUS (EIN582277856) and KBF Canada (RCO769784893RR0001)

Photography credits to Cameron Bloom, Nigel Brennan, Mary F. Calvert, Kate Geraghty, Amber Hooper, Joni Kabana, Johannes Remling and Martha Tadesse.

Patient names have been changed to protect the identities of those we help.